New York Burning book by Jill Lepore winner of the Bancroft prize, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2005. Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard University. In this book she reconstructed the events that took place on the spring and summer of 1741 which have been called the New York Slave rebellion of 1741, New York conspiracy 1741 or The Negro Plot of 1741.
Jill Lepore research, and reorganized into words the cultural, political context, population eighteen century Manhattan. Comparable to the assemble of a puzzle, she put together the pieces of a mysterious event chapter by chapter using vivid descriptions. She employed census data, tax assessment rolls, party politics information, trial data, place data which helped reconstruct …show more content…
Tried and convicted before the colony’s Supreme Court, thirteen black men were burned at the strake. Seventeen more were hanged, two of their dead bodies chained to posts not far from the negroes Burial Ground, left to bloat a rot. One jailed man cut his own throat. Another eighty-four men and women were sold into yet more miserable, bone crushing slavery in the Caribbean. Two white men and two white women, the alleged ring leaders, were hanged ,one of them in chains; seven more white men were pardoned on condition that they never set foot in New York again” (Lepore 2015)
She named the book New York Burning and named the chapters: Ice, Fire, Stone, Paper, Water, Blood, Ink and Dust. It captures my attention her choice of names for the chapter which I thought it correlated with the title of the book; which set the atmosphere for the mystery that surrounds this historic, I would …show more content…
New York Burning is ardently, laboriously researched historical book of the events that occurred on1741. I think this book will be enjoyed and admired by those that have not heard about this event before and appreciate a rich detail and research history. Even though one of the things that I enjoyed the most was the rich detail, at times many so many names made it hard to follow. As Jill Lepore states that this is an episode hardly known today, I agree with her and New York Burning is a good start point to learn more about slave history of our city. records from those of the
Jill Lepore research, and reorganized into words the cultural, political context, population eighteen century Manhattan. Comparable to the assemble of a puzzle, she put together the pieces of a mysterious event chapter by chapter using vivid descriptions. She employed census data, tax assessment rolls, party politics information, trial data, place data which helped reconstruct …show more content…
Tried and convicted before the colony’s Supreme Court, thirteen black men were burned at the strake. Seventeen more were hanged, two of their dead bodies chained to posts not far from the negroes Burial Ground, left to bloat a rot. One jailed man cut his own throat. Another eighty-four men and women were sold into yet more miserable, bone crushing slavery in the Caribbean. Two white men and two white women, the alleged ring leaders, were hanged ,one of them in chains; seven more white men were pardoned on condition that they never set foot in New York again” (Lepore 2015)
She named the book New York Burning and named the chapters: Ice, Fire, Stone, Paper, Water, Blood, Ink and Dust. It captures my attention her choice of names for the chapter which I thought it correlated with the title of the book; which set the atmosphere for the mystery that surrounds this historic, I would …show more content…
New York Burning is ardently, laboriously researched historical book of the events that occurred on1741. I think this book will be enjoyed and admired by those that have not heard about this event before and appreciate a rich detail and research history. Even though one of the things that I enjoyed the most was the rich detail, at times many so many names made it hard to follow. As Jill Lepore states that this is an episode hardly known today, I agree with her and New York Burning is a good start point to learn more about slave history of our city. records from those of the