EVENT INFORMATION

6
April
1712

Enslaved New Yorkers launch an armed revolt

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๐Ÿ“… 6 April 1712 ๐Ÿ“

A group of enslaved people set fire to a building and attacked white residents in an organized revolt. Colonial authorities crushed the uprising, executed several participants, and imposed harsher controls on Black residents. The surviving colonial record is shaped by the government that prosecuted the rebels; the revolt itself expressed a struggle for freedom under urban slavery.

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Enslaved African rebels

Organizations in this Event

New York colonial government