Sentences with phrase «york slave revolt»
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As Stuart Banner explores in his book The Death Penalty: An American History, one of the earliest American - made capital statutes — as opposed to ones borrowed from England — was passed in New York in the aftermath of a 1712 slave revolt.
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[9] In New York, several burnings at the stake are recorded, particularly following suspected slave revolt plots.