The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York
- ISBN-10
- 1582340994
- ISBN-13
- 9781582340999
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-01-23
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Author
- Mat Johnson
Description
Describes how the suspect testimony of Mary Burton, a young white indentured servant, spawned rumors of a conspiracy and a slave revolt and led to a deadly summer of persecution, violence, and murder that terrorized mid-eighteenth-century New York City. 15,000 first printing.
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