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Bloodthirsty black slaves, villainous Catholic priests, and a tavern-keeper who plotted to crown himself king conspired to burn New York City to the ground in 1741. The damage was minimal, thanks in part to the dogged work of the judiciary. The wrongdoers confessed and were punished, and the city was saved...
...alarmingly, the governor began offering pardons for those who confessed to the crime and alerted authorities to other, previously unknown accomplices. A waterfall of confessions followed, although they often contradicted each other. According to some, the conspiracy was hatched at Hughson’s (located near what is now Ground Zero). No, said others, meetings were at the house of cooper Geradus Comfort next door. And no, still others said, they were at both Hughson’s and Comfort’s. These confessions, made under obvious duress, were enough to condemn the accused to death...
...immediately felt shaken, sensing the ghosts of death around me in the dungeon. Even thinking about the pain of the thousands of slaves that died where I was standing was an impossible task. One can still see the color line on the wall about two feet up from the ground, to where the human waste collected. Millions of Africans were once held here, caught in the darkest period of human history...
Progress on the Review, which aimed to revamp Harvard’s undergraduate education, ground to a halt last semester as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences turned its attention to discontent over Summers’ leadership...
According to HUDS Communications Coordinator, Jami M. Snyder, “The FLP aims to educate consumers ‘from the ground up’ and focuses on four inter-connected areas of food and society: agriculture, nutrition, community and food preparation...