Description
Author: Daniel Horsmanden
Editor and Introduction: Thomas J. Davis
Title: The New York Conspiracy
Publisher: Beacon Press
Place: Boston
Year: 1971
Edition: Beacon Press edition of the historical account; Beacon Paperback BP 380
Format: Paperback
Condition: Covers show rubbing and light edge wear. Pages and page edges show age toning and scattered spotting. “Hoagland” written in ink on the fore-edge.
Provenance: From the estate of poet Everett Hoagland.
A disturbing chapter in colonial American history unfolds in The New York Conspiracy, Daniel Horsmanden’s account of the prosecutions surrounding an alleged conspiracy in New York in 1741.
Following a robbery and a series of fires, suspicion fell on enslaved Black residents and poor white inhabitants. Horsmanden, one of the judges involved, compiled a narrative and trial records that reveal the workings of a society shaped by slavery, religious prejudice, and fear.
Edited and introduced by Thomas J. Davis, this Beacon Press edition places the historical account in context, opening questions about evidence, judicial power, and the consequences of public suspicion.
This copy comes from the estate of poet Everett Hoagland and bears “Hoagland” in ink on its fore-edge—a distinctive ownership marking connecting the volume to his personal library.