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Sale 2697 - Lot 361

Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(SLAVERY.) Daniel Horsmanden. The New-York Conspiracy, or a History of the Negro Plot. 385, [7] pages. Octavo, 8 x 5 inches, contemporary sheep; lacking free endpapers; foxing, minor wear and dampstaining to contents, lacking two leaves from appendix (pages 375-378), long crudely repaired tear to pages 297-298; early owner's inscription on rear pastedown. New York, 1810
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Second American edition, after the 1744 first edition. In 1741, wild rumors of a planned slave uprising gripped Manhattan, rendered yet more terrifying by the supposed involvement of poor whites. 181 suspects were arrested, 30 were hung or burned at the stake, and dozens of others deported. Historians still debate whether there was any plot at the core of this panic, or whether the whole thing was a delusion on the scale of the Salem witch trials. Howes H652; Sabin 33060.

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