All Stories

  1. Resilience, Hope and Prison
  2. Introduction
  3. The Crisis of 1741: Entangled in the “Great Negro Plot”
  4. On Board the María Luisa
  5. Preliminary Material
  6. Appendix 9: James Parker about the “Spanish Negroes”
  7. Appendix 11
  8. Appendix 10: Captures of Spanish Prizes
  9. Appendix 12
  10. Appendix 7: Articles about the Rebellion on Board the Sloop Polly
  11. Appendix 5: Transcript of Manuel de Cumana’s Petition Presented to Governor James DeLancey (New York State Archives)
  12. Appendix 4: Transcription of Case Entries in the Minute Books of the New York Supreme Court of Judicature (New York State Archives)
  13. Appendix 6: William Kempe’s Boat Stolen from Greenwich (1757)
  14. Appendix 8: Four “Spanish Negroes”
  15. Appendix 2: Transcription of Juan Miranda’s Case Documents
  16. Appendix 3: Transcript of Juan Miranda’s Lawsuit against Cornelius van Ranst before the Supreme Court of Judicature of New York (New York State Archives)
  17. Epilogue: From Cumaná, Cartagena, Havana … to New York
  18. Appendix 1: Transcription of Juan Miranda’s Case Documents (New York Historical)
  19. Juan Miranda, John Moranda and More Years of Struggle
  20. William Kempe and the “Spanish Negroes”
  21. Slavery Challenged: Juan Miranda’s Four-Year Legal Struggle for Freedom in New York