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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How did New York officials respond to the 1712 revolt?
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The uprising was repressed and followed by harsher controls.
Enslaved New Yorkers organized an armed revolt in 1712.
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The revolt was met by colonial repression and harsher controls.