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The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City, in the Province of New York, of 23 Black slaves. They killed nine whites and injured another six before they were stopped. More than 70 black people were arrested and jailed. Of these, 27 were put on trial, and 21 convicted and executed.
Slave being burned at the stake in N.Y.C. after the 1741 slave insurrection. As in other slaveholding societies, the city was swept by periodic fears of slave revolt. Incidents were misinterpreted under such conditions. In what was called the New York Conspiracy of 1741, city officials believed a revolt had started. Over weeks, they arrested ...
1739 - Stono Rebellion, Slave rebellion., September, Province of South Carolina; 1741 - New York Slave Insurrection of 1741, New York City, New York; 1742 - Philadelphia Election Riot, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1746 - New Jersey Tenant Riots, New Jersey; 1747 - Knowles Riot, Boston, Massachusetts (anti-impressment) 1763 - Pontiac's War
1712 New York Slave Revolt ... Brown's efforts have shown that the slave insurrection in Jamaica in 1760-61 was a carefully planned affair and not a spontaneous, ...
Several local slave rebellions took place during the 17th and 18th centuries: Gloucester County, Virginia Revolt (1663); [165] New York Slave Revolt of 1712; Stono Rebellion (1739); and New York Slave Insurrection of 1741. [166]
Amid contentious national pushback over how much of the full history of slavery in the United States should be taught in schools, the holiday season represents a particularly overlooked period.
A Vermont artist has lost his legal battle to force a law school to display a mural that portrays enslaved Black people in a style critics have called “cartoonish” and “racist.”
1712: A slave insurrection in New York City causes significant property damage and results in severe punishment or execution of the rebels. [12] 1719: Non-slaveholding farmers in Virginia persuade the Virginia General Assembly to discuss a prohibition of slavery or a ban on importing slaves.