The accused were tried by Judge Daniel Horsmanden, an ambitious British expatriate who turned the proceedings into a Salem-like witch hunt. Much of the evidence ...

Feb 23, 2024 · New York slave rebellion of 1741, a supposed large-scale scheme plotted by Black slaves and poor white settlers to burn down and take over ...

Based upon questionable testimony, thirty people were sentenced to death and seventy others to slavery in the Caribbean. Among those executed were John Hughson, ...

Apr 30, 2023 · According to Davis, officials heard that “many of the more than 2,000 slaves, and some other persons, had conspired to burn down the town and to ...

Mar 6, 2007 · The New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741 is an extraordinarily complex story. Some historians have dismissed the idea that slaves actually ...

The New York slave rebellion of 1741 was an alleged plot in the English colony of New York. Many prominent white colonists believed that Black enslaved ...

But more and more black slaves were coming to the city each year -- by 1741, two thousand of the twenty thousand inhabitants were black. Keeping the blacks from ...

Title. The New-York conspiracy, or, A history of the Negro plot, with the journal of the proceedings against the conspirators at New-York in the years 1741-2 ..

In New York City in 1741 an economic decline exacerbated conflict between slaves engaged in commercial activity and working-class white colonists who felt ...