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 | New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (1st Edition) by Jill Lepore Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 1-4000-3226-1 / 1400032261 ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3226-6 / 9781400032266 New York Burning is a well-told tale of a once-notorious episode that took place in Manhattan in 1741. Though, as Jill Lepore writes, New York's "slave past has long been buried," for most of the 18th century one in five inhabitants of Manhattan were enslaved, making it second only to Charleston, So | |