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
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
- 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
- Lieutenant-Governor George Clarke, Letter to the Lords of Trade, June 20, 1741
- Letter to Cadwallader Colden, Summer 1741
- 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