Summary Of The New York Conspiracy

The conspiracy without a doubt did occur. The blacks were aware that they were slaves and spoke on challenging slavery. The intention to overthrow the current system in place was a there in New York City in 1941. It is shown in the actions of those who did rebel and confess to doing so. Davis infers that, “the intentions are often difficult things to establish in fact. While actions not always speak for themselves, they are more easily visible. So these actions of blacks in New York more easily show a desire and an effort to change some of the immediate circumstances of slavery” (29). In arguing this claim, Davis argues that the slaves did conspire. The “desire” to change the circumstances of slavery is the reason for the strains on the white’s
The weather is a key factor in this conspiracy. Winter of 1740-1741 was brutal in New York. The winter left animals frozen on roads and many inches of snow on the ground. The fires were actually a result of the season. Plaag’s recollection of this is, “New Yorkers discovered their conspiracy at a time when fears about the dangers of fire were already heightened for purely natural reasons” (282). The author is insisting that the fires were an issue within itself because there was no explanation for why they were occurring, and the conspiracy in addition to this made the tensions
Plaag notes that, “for starters, bitterly cold days tend to produce two factors that contribute to fires in widen structures: incredibly dry air (which literally sucks the moisture out of wooden frame buildings, causing the settling and shifting that is often reported in winter months) and people huddled inside – often too closely– around highly stoked fires and candle light, adding to the risk of accidental fire” (282). It was reported in the court documents that they could not necessarily pin the fires on a slave. It is for this very reason Plaag mentioned. The slaves could not have caused a fire that occurred because of the old wood and the weather. The slaves were not the cause of the fires and it supports that the fires, what the slaves were conspired to have planned and carried through was not done by them at all. The thought of conspiring and leaving their lifestyle was probably a reasoning but fear led to the unfortunate end of the lives of the