1810: THE NEGRO PLOT IN YORK SALEM WITCH TRIALS AGAINST THE BLACK COMMUNITY
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PRINTED 1810: NEW YORK WHOLESALE JUDICIAL MURDER AGAINST THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN NEW YORK
REMINSICENT OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS
HORSMANDEN, DANIEL. 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. New York, 1810 all 8vo, approx. 9 x 6 inches. Original boards, pages uncut, boards detaching/ed, spine lost, title page and second leaf creased as shown, some staining a...nd moderate foxing throughout, slight loss to top of title page, early signature of Voorhees family, one of the earliest Dutch families in America with his red stamp to preface leaf. Second revised edition.
Ref: Sabin 33059 (1st ed.).
"In the spring of 1741 fear gripped Manhattan as fires burned across all the inhabited areas of the island. The suspected culprits were New York's slaves, some 200 of whom were arrested and tried for conspiracy to burn the town and murder its white inhabitants. As in the Salem witch trials and the Court examining the Denmark Vesey plot in Charleston, a few witnesses implicated many other suspects. In the end, over 100 people were hanged, exiled, or burned at the stake.
Most of the convicted people were hanged or burnt – how many is uncertain. The bodies of two supposed ringleaders, Caesar, a slave, and John Hughson, a white cobbler and tavern keeper, were gibbeted. Their corpses were left to rot in public. Seventy-two men were deported from New York, sent to Newfoundland, various islands in the West Indies, and the Madeiras." [Wikipedia]
REMINSICENT OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS
HORSMANDEN, DANIEL. 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. New York, 1810 all 8vo, approx. 9 x 6 inches. Original boards, pages uncut, boards detaching/ed, spine lost, title page and second leaf creased as shown, some staining a...nd moderate foxing throughout, slight loss to top of title page, early signature of Voorhees family, one of the earliest Dutch families in America with his red stamp to preface leaf. Second revised edition.
Ref: Sabin 33059 (1st ed.).
"In the spring of 1741 fear gripped Manhattan as fires burned across all the inhabited areas of the island. The suspected culprits were New York's slaves, some 200 of whom were arrested and tried for conspiracy to burn the town and murder its white inhabitants. As in the Salem witch trials and the Court examining the Denmark Vesey plot in Charleston, a few witnesses implicated many other suspects. In the end, over 100 people were hanged, exiled, or burned at the stake.
Most of the convicted people were hanged or burnt – how many is uncertain. The bodies of two supposed ringleaders, Caesar, a slave, and John Hughson, a white cobbler and tavern keeper, were gibbeted. Their corpses were left to rot in public. Seventy-two men were deported from New York, sent to Newfoundland, various islands in the West Indies, and the Madeiras." [Wikipedia]
