Great Negro Plot A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York

Name: Great Negro Plot A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York
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ISBN: 9781582340999

ISBN-10: 1582340994

ISBN-13: 9781582340999

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mat Johnson, Mat Johnson

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 1/23/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.29" wide x 8.15" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English