New York Burning
Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
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Jill Lepore
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Over a few weeks in 1741, 10 fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising. Tried and convicted before the colony's Supreme Court, 13 black men were burned at the stake and 17 were hanged. Four whites, the alleged ringleaders of the plot, were also hanged, and seven more were pardoned on condition that they never set foot in New York again. More than 100 black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall, where many were forced to confess and name names, sending still more men to the gallows and to the stake.
In a narrative rich with period detail and vivid description, Jill Lepore pieces together the events and the thinking that led white New Yorkers to make "bonfires of the Negroes". She reconstructs the harsh past of a city that slavery built, and almost destroyed. She explores the social and political climate of the 1730s and '40s and examines the nature and tenor of the interactions between slaves and their masters. She shows too that the 1741 conspiracy can be understood only alongside a more famous episode from the city's past: the 1735 trial of the printer John Peter Zenger. And, weighing both new and old evidence, she makes clear how the threat of black rebellion made white political pluralism palatable.
Lucid, probing, captivatingly written, New York Burning is a revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.
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Midnight Rising
- John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
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Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland....
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Up from Obscurity
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Evan Review
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- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
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From 1866 to 1876, more than 3,000 free African Americans and their white allies were killed in cold blood by terrorist organizations in the South. Over the years, this fact would not only be forgotten, but a series of exculpatory myths would arise to cover the tracks of this orchestrated campaign of atrocity and violence.
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Boring
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The Day Freedom Died
- The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
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- Narrated by: Jim Bond
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America after the Civil War was a land of shattered promises and entrenched hatreds. In the explosive South, danger took many forms: white extremists loyal to a defeated world terrorized former slaves, while in the halls of government, bitter and byzantine political warfare raged between Republicans and Democrats.
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A Story That Had to Be Told
- By pablo on 07-07-17
By: Charles Lane
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A Delusion of Satan
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- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
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During the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan and the witches who worshipped him. From the girls' initial denouncing of an Indian slave, the accusations soon multiplied. In less than two years, 19 men and women were hanged, one was pressed to death, and over a hundred others were imprisoned and impoverished. This evenhanded and now-classic history illuminates the horrifying episode with visceral clarity.
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A new take on the Witch Trials
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By: Frances Hill
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A Storm of Witchcraft
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- By: Emerson W. Baker
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers - mainly young women - suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit, the community began a hunt to track down those responsible for the demonic work.
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Wow....riveting and tragic
- By TeamDowager on 10-23-15
By: Emerson W. Baker
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The War Before the War
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- By: Andrew Delbanco
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For decades after its founding, America was really two nations—one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the South in search of freedom in the North proved that the "united" states was actually a lie. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation based on the principle of human equality was in fact a prison-house in which millions of Americans had no rights.
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Great promise greater disappointment
- By Amazon Customer on 12-09-18
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The Story of America
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In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories - from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type. Part civics primer, part cultural history, The Story of America excavates the origins of everything from the paper ballot and the Constitution to the I.O.U. and the dictionary.
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A Fun Read on Historical Subjects
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By: Jill Lepore
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Blood of the Prophets
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The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the 30-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians.
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religion is dangerous
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Slavery by Another Name
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In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an Age of Neoslavery that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.
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Steel Yourself
- By Mark on 05-23-14
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New England Bound
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In a work that fundamentally recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England. While most histories of slavery in early America confine themselves to the Southern colonies and the Caribbean, New England Bound forcefully widens the historical aperture to include the entirety of English North America.
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Don't waste your time or money
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Bury the Chains
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In early 1787, 12 men - a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery - came together in a London printing shop and began a remarkable grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another continent. Masterfully stoking public opinion, the movement's leaders pioneered a variety of techniques that have been adopted by citizens' movements ever since, from consumer boycotts to wall posters and lapel buttons to celebrity endorsements.
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Great Eye-Opener
- By Carl Thompson on 01-06-19
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- Daniel Tyson
- 03-24-24
Why does the audio version skip paragraphs of text?
Reading along with the audio version I found that paragraphs of text were skipped over heavily through out the audio version. It made it difficult to follow along and left out important details of this Microhistory. Very disappointing.
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- Alonzo Nightjar
- 12-31-22
A cast of thousands
Not really, but it felt like it. I found it difficult to keep track of all of them, who was accusing whom, who got off, the races and positions of the players, etc. Might have worked better for me as a printed page and some tables on chronology and the cast list and some footnotes.
It is a series of events I knew nothing about but I couldn’t say I have a clearer picture now. A number of NYC buildings burnt, probably by humans. A number of people were burnt, definitely by humans. Some more people were hanged, imprisoned and pardoned. Some committed suicide. I think I recall some moving away. Some were Black and some were White. Some were women and some were men. Somebody in Boston didn’t like it.
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- Phillip Goodson
- 05-15-09
Interesting
An obviously well researched book that was well written and is presented well by the narrator.
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- EL
- 01-20-23
Heavily abridged
An excellent, well-researched, and deeply engaging history. The narration is also exceptionally good. Unfortunately, between 1/4 and 1/3 of the print book has been cut out in this version. This abridgment excises not only key events, but much of the poetic nuance and juxtaposition.
The audiobook also omits updated research and corrections that appear in newer editions.
As this is used in so many classrooms, and it is written by one of the U.S.'s most well-known and accessible historians, LePore's study really deserves an updated, unabridged recording.
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