Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings in The Detection of the Conspiracy

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18th-century book historical document judicial account trial record

Daniel Horsmanden’s *Journal of the Proceedings in The Detection of the Conspiracy* is an 18th-century judicial account that records and interprets the trials and investigations surrounding the alleged New York slave and arson conspiracy of 1741.

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Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings in The Detection of the Conspiracy canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	18th-century book ⓘ historical document ⓘ judicial account ⓘ trial record ⓘ
author	Daniel Horsmanden NERFINISHED ⓘ
bias	expresses strong suspicion toward enslaved Africans and poor whites ⓘ reflects colonial fears of slave uprisings ⓘ
circulation	read by colonial officials and later historians ⓘ
contains	chronological entries of proceedings ⓘ interpretive commentary by the magistrate ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Colonial New York ⓘ
describesEvent	interrogations of enslaved people in New York in 1741 ⓘ series of fires in New York City in 1741 ⓘ trials of alleged conspirators in the New York slave conspiracy of 1741 ⓘ
discipline	African American studies ⓘ history ⓘ legal studies ⓘ
documents	confessions obtained during interrogations ⓘ executions and transportations of alleged conspirators ⓘ sentences imposed on convicted conspirators ⓘ testimonies of enslaved witnesses ⓘ
focusesOn	alleged conspiracy between enslaved Africans and poor whites ⓘ suppression of perceived insurrection in 1741 ⓘ
form	prose narrative ⓘ
genre	court record ⓘ legal history ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ
historicalSignificance	key document for studying racialized justice in colonial New York ⓘ primary source for the New York slave conspiracy of 1741 ⓘ source for understanding colonial legal procedures ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legalContext	British colonial law in New York ⓘ
mainSubject	New York slave conspiracy of 1741 NERFINISHED ⓘ arson investigations in New York City in 1741 ⓘ legal proceedings against alleged conspirators in 1741 ⓘ slave trials in colonial New York ⓘ
narrativeVoice	first-person judicial narrative ⓘ
perspective	magistrate’s viewpoint ⓘ
placeOfPublication	New York City ⓘ
relatedTo	Atlantic world slave resistance ⓘ New York City history ⓘ history of slavery in the Northern colonies ⓘ
timePeriodDescribed	1741 ⓘ colonial era in New York ⓘ
usedAsSourceBy	historians of American slavery ⓘ legal historians of colonial America ⓘ scholars of race and law in early America ⓘ

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New York Conspiracy of 1741 → documentedIn → Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings in The Detection of the Conspiracy ⓘ