A "PROFOUNDLY TROUBLING” CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT "OF HOW SLAVERY DESTABILIZED—AND CREATED—AMERICAN POLITICS"
HORSMANDEN, Daniel, Esq. New-York Conspiracy, or a History of the Negro Plot. New-York, 1810.
Very scarce 1810 edition of NY Justice Horsmanden's account of the alleged 1741 conspiracy—"unquestionably false… [yet] the most important single source of information" on the mass arrests, trials and executions of enslaved and free Black colonists, with 13 burned at the stake, 17 hanged and 84 men and women sold into slavery, to one historian, "the biggest lynching in the history of America," rare uncut in original boards. $3200.
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