Octavo, black cloth & blind-stamped blue boards (hardcover), xxv, 491 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers, and slight edgewear, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. ÒLike the Salem witch trials, but much more murderous, the New York Conspiracy of 1741 was one of the most extraordinarily revealing events in American colonial history. The New York Conspiracy is an account of the trials of 20 whites and more than 150 slaves accused of conspiracy. Compiled by Daniel Horsmanden, one of the judges, it contains his narrative of the events which led to the t... View More...
