| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Canada and the United States

Jill Lepore. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2005. Pp. xx, 323. $26.95.

Much ado is made of the 1692 Salem Witchcraft trials, where twenty people were executed. Considerably less ink has been spilled on the alleged slave conspiracy of 1741 in New York City, where thirty-four people, thirty of whom were people of color, lost their lives. Much of the scholarship on the latter event centers on whether or not a string of suspicious fires betokened a real conspiracy among African Americans to liberate themselves. Jill Lepore is more interested in the "specter" of rebellion and how that threat affected the development of American politics. But first, she combs through the evidence and reveals new constellations of characters who emerged over the course of the 1741 arson investigations.

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