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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) HORSMANDEN, DANIEL. The New York Conspiracy or a History of the Negro Plot. [4]-385, [7] pages. 8vo, contemporary full sheep, re-cased at earlier date; lacking the front and rear end-papers; paper toned with occasional foxing throughout. New York, 1810
second edition. In the late winter-early spring of 1741, Manhattan's colonial settlers were beginning to worry about a revolt of their slave population which, combined with a small but growing free black community, represented over 20% of the island's population. When a series of fires appeared to have been deliberately set, the settlers suspected a plot, and to make them all the more paranoid, they suspected a group of the city's poor whites to be involved as well. In short order the hysteria over a vast "Negro Plot" gripped the city. And in much the same manner as the witch madness took over in Salem, at least a hundred people were rounded up and hastily tried. Ultimately, thirty-four people were executed, thirteen Negroes were burnt at the stake, and seventeen hanged. Four whites; two men and two women, were alleged to be behind the plot, and they too were hanged.
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