New York Conspiracy of 1741 - in Fiction

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These events figure in the plot of Pete Hamill's novel Forever (2003).

In 2007, Mat Johnson published The Great Negro Plot: A Tale of Conspiracy and Murder in Eighteenth-Century New York, a novel set amidst this event.

These events are used as part of a revenge plot in the novel On Maiden Lane (1981) by Bruce Nicolaysen, a 5-volume family saga encompassing the history of New York/Manhattan from 1613-1930.

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