New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel Horsmanden's Journal of the Proceedings with Related Documents Book

Foreword

Preface

List of Illustrations

PART ONE

Introduction: Fear, Race, and Society

in British New York

New York City on the Eve of the Trials

Colonial New York Society

Slavery in Colonial New York

Fear of Slave Revolts

New York in the Empire

Taverns and Crime

Legal Context of the Trials

The Journal as a Document

A Note about the Text

Major Figures in the 1741 Trials

PART TWO

The Document

Daniel Horsmanden, A Journal of the Proceedings

in The Detection of the Conspiracy Formed by Some

White People, in Conjunction with Negro and other

Slaves, for Burning the City of New-York in America,

and Murdering the Inhabitants

Preface

Introduction

Larceny: The Trials of Caesar and Prince

Arson: The Trials of Cuffee and Quack

Conspiracy: The Trial of the Hughsons and

Peggy Kerry

Foreign Threats: The Trial of the Spanish Prisoners

Papist Plot: The Trial of John Ury

Conclusion

PART THREE

Related Documents

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   New York Weekly Journal, A full and particular Account of the Negro Plot in Antigua, as reported by the Committee appointed by the Government there to enquire into the same,

   March 7, 1736

2. Public Record Office, The Confessions of Wan an Indian Slave belonging to Peter Low and of York a Negroe belonging to Peter Marschalk, June 18, 1741, and June 20, 1741

3. Lieutenant-Governor George Clarke, Letter to the Lords of Trade, June 20, 1741

4. Letter to Cadwallader Colden, Summer 1741

5. Daniel Horsmanden, Letter to Cadwallader Colden, August 7, 1741

APPENDIXES

A Chronology of the New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741 and Related Events (1624–1763)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index