Riots, Revolts or Rebellions in the Western Hemisphere

The research project will consider, compare, and contrast any issue, event, topic or person encompassing the riots, revolt or rebellions in the western hemisphere. 

RESEARCH PAPER: This research project must utilize a cross section of traditional library reference resources; periodicals; scholarly journals; monographs; paper indexes and abstracts; electronic indexes, abstracts, and the Internet; government documents; archival resources; and the possibility for oral histories and interviews where appropriate. 

References

Davis, Thomas J. "The New York slave conspiracy of 1741 as black protest."Journal of Negro History (1971): 17-30 

Plaag, Eric W. "New York's 1741 Slave Conspiracy in a Climate of Fear and Anxiety." New York History (2003): 275-299. 

Bond, Richard. "Shaping a Conspiracy: Black Testimony in the 1741 New York Plot." Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5, no. 1 (2007): 63-94. 

Johnson, Mat. The Great Negro Plot. Bloomsbury USA, New York, 2007. 

Lepore, Jill. New York burning: Liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan. Vintage, 2005. 

Zabin, Serena R., ed. The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel  Horsmanden's Journal of the Proceedings, with Related Documents.  Macmillan, 2004.