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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction: Fear, Race, and Society in British New York | |
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| New York City on the Eve of the Trials | |
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| Colonial New York Society | |
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| Slavery in Colonial New York | |
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| Fear of Slave Revolts | |
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| New York in the Empire | |
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| Taverns and Crime | |
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| Legal Context of the Trials | |
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| The Journal as a Document | |
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| A Note about the Text | |
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| Major Figures in the 1741 Trials | |
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| The Document | |
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| Daniel Horsmanden, A Journal of the Proceedings | |
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| In The Detection of the Conspiracy Formed by Some | |
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| White People, in Conjunction with Negro and other | |
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| Slaves, for Burning the City of New-York in America | |
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| And Murdering the Inhabitants | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Larceny: The Trials of Caesar and Prince | |
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| Arson: The Trials of Cuffee and Quack | |
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| Conspiracy: The Trial of the Hughsons and Peggy Kerry | |
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| Foreign Threats: The Trial of the Spanish Prisoners | |
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| Papist Plot: The Trial of John Ury | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Lieutenant-Governor George Clarke, Letter to the Lords of Trade, June 20, 1741 | |
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| Letter to Cadwallader Colden, Summer 1741 | |
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| Daniel Horsmanden, Letter to Cadwallader Colden, August 7, 1741 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| A Chronology of the New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741 and Related Events (1624���1763 | |