23 slaves met about midnight on 6 April 1712, set fire to several buildings in the middle of town, and then set upon whites who rushed to quench the blazes. Manhattan's slave population grew apace until 1712 when occurred what New York's Royal Governor Robert Hunter described as a 'bloody conspiracy of some of the Slaves of this place to destroy as many of the inhabitants as they could.to revenge themselves for some hard usage they apprehended to have received from their Masters'.
While more intent on supplying slaves to such Caribbean islands as Barbados and Jamaica, the Royal African Company also expressed its interest in 'introducing Black Slaves into New York'. 1660-1685) in 1662 with the exclusive right to trade in slaves drawn from the African region known as Guinea. The Duke of Albany and York headed the Royal African Company, chartered by his brother King Charles II (r.
1685-1688), wrested Manhattan from the Dutch in 1664, the enslaved population also took a turn upward, as England further developed its own slave-trading efforts. When the Duke of Albany and York, later to become England's King James II (r.
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