New York burning : liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan /
"Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, ten fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged, and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
2006.
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Edition: | 1st Vintage books ed. |
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Closed Stacks
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UNY F 128.4 .L47 2006 |
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