On this day, a group of 27 enslaved Africans in New York City launched a rebellion against brutal conditions and oppression. The revolt began with the strategic setting of a fire to lure white colonists into an ambush, resulting in the deaths of nine whites. The colonial militia was called in, and the rebellion was swiftly suppressed. In the aftermath, severe reprisals followed: over 70 Black people were arrested, and 21 were executed. The revolt led to harsher slave codes in New York and revealed deep tensions in early American slavery outside the Southern colonies.
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