Index

Famous Trials Index
  • Basic
  • Standard Compliant Channels
  • $50
  • Completely synergize resource taxing relationships via premier market
  • 1 GB of space
  • Support at $25/hour
  • Sign Up
  • Premium
  • Standard Compliant Channels
  • $100
  • Completely synergize resource taxing relationships via premier market
  • 10 GB of space
  • Support at $15/hour
  • Sign Up
  • Platinum
  • Standard Compliant Channels
  • $250
  • Completely synergize resource taxing relationships via premier market
  • 30 GB of space
  • Support at $5/hour
  • Sign Up
"The Court Scene" from the Amistad. Murals by Hale Woodruff (1939) (Talladega College)
"The Death of Socrates" (painting by Jacques Louis David, 1787).
Clarence Darrow questions William Jennings Bryan during the Scopes Trial (1925).
Hermann Goering testifies in the Major War Criminals Trial in Nuremberg (1946).
Examination of a Witch" by Thompkins Matteson, 1853. (Suspect being examined for "witch's marks" in Salem in 1692.)
  • All
  • Free Speech Trials
  • Murder Trials
  • Race Trials
  • Religion Trials
  • War/Corruption/Politics Trials
  • Wrongful Convictions

Books

T. J. Davis, A Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York
(Univ. of Mass. Press, 1985)

 

Mat Johnson, The Great Negro Plot: A tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York
[A work of historical fiction]
(Bloomsbury, 2007)

Charles Hoffer, The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime, and Colonial Law
(Univ. Press of Kansas, 2003)
 
Jill Lepore, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
(Vintage, 2006)
 
Serena R. Zabin (editor), The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741:
Daniel Horsmanden's Journal of the Proceedings with Related Documents
(Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004)

CDs

The New York Conspiracy or A History of the Negro Plot of 1741
(Genealogy CDs, 2003)