The New-York Conspiracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New-York Conspiracy write by Daniel Horsmanden. This book was released on 1810. The New-York Conspiracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Great Negro Plot
The Great Negro Plot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Negro Plot write by Mat Johnson. This book was released on 2008-12-01. The Great Negro Plot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1741, New York City was thrown into an uproar when a sixteen-year-old white woman, an indentured servant named Mary Burton, testified that she was privy to a monstrous conspiracy against the white people of Manhattan. Promised her freedom by authorities if she would only uncover the plot, Mary reported that the black men of the city were planning to burn New York City to the ground. As the courts ensnared more and more suspects and violence swept the city, 154 black New Yorkers were jailed, 14 were burned alive, 18 were hanged, and more than 100 simply "disappeared"; four whites wound up being executed and 24 imprisoned. Even as the madness escalated, however, officials started to realize that Mary Burton might not be telling the truth. Expertly written by the acclaimed author of Drop and Hunting in Harlem, The Great Negro Plot is a brilliant reconstruction of a little-known moment in American history whose echoes still reverberate today. Mat Johnson is the author of the novels Hunting in Harlem and Drop. He received his M.F.A. from Columbia and now teaches at Bard College. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his family.
A Rumor of Revolt
A Rumor of Revolt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Rumor of Revolt write by Thomas Joseph Davis. This book was released on 1990. A Rumor of Revolt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741
The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741 write by Peter Charles Hoffer. This book was released on 2003. The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Almost 35 years before New York saw the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumours of a slave conspiracy spread in the city, leading to the conviction and execution of over 70 slaves. This text retells the dramatic story of these landmark trials.
New York Burning
New York Burning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New York Burning write by Jill Lepore. This book was released on 2007-12-18. New York Burning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall. Even back in the seventeenth century, the city was a rich mosaic of cultures, communities and colors, with slaves making up a full one-fifth of the population. Exploring the political and social climate of the times, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with state intrigue and terror, the threat of black rebellion united the white political pluralities in a frenzy of racial fear and violence.
