The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-06
NEGBo INsURREclloNs IN BARBApoEs.

NEGRO INSTRUCTIONS IN BARBADOE5.
The little Island OF Barhadoes, which forms o. the
group well known the West Indies dlsrout
times been oonvGlsed from end 20 end with negro
recons The drs Of these occurred far back 1912
when the slaves entered into general conspiracy to
der all the white inhabitants, and thus by their
TO get complete possession OF the ISLAND. Fortunately
however, the diabolcal plot discovered the day be-
fore that appointed for It's execution although the greatest
sec.esy preserved. revealed By slave, either
through dread Of the terrible consequences or from
spirit Of gratitude towards his master BY his timely
veion the plans of insu gents were broken up and
eighteen of the leaders found guilty executed
About forty years after this event. the island was again
thrown into state Of CONSERVATION by another attempt
at iusunecton. The conspirators engaged in ma
turing the plot three years before IL was made
known Their object in the first instruction was to
get OF the Island by general massacre of all
the white inhabitants They intendea as tho pest Say of
carrying out their design 70 set the sugar ire
and the alarm that followed murder their masters
" The handsomesi of the white women,' says the hsto
ran OF The event. were TO be reserved for their deros
The plot mace known before could be carried out
and the whole affair ended in the hanging of about twenty
OF the ringleaders
In 1902 another attempt at instruction was
made by the slaves, and In 1916 still
other. The first suppressed without much
trouble, but the second was only put down after large
amount Of property had been destroyed and several lives
lost Il appears that thus tnsrecon actually the
suh Of tie ttot7H speeches hicA made the British
Parliament dali or1 England By Tie dbotionits y that
country The reechS ace read By If the disIGtcl
negroes the plantations 30 others and one OF the gno ar
ina Of these took adray1oe of M sion 10 c;ts ~ Irse
against ntsr masters THIS fellow ''artfuly disseminated
the report among the negroes that Christmas day,
1885, or at latest on the succeeding New Years day pc
Rod would BE- put their slavery and being disapponi
ed was given out that the owners prevented this. On
Easter SundaySlnday is iavofte day for negro
recuons-ihe cane neds were sci ON lire. 'Ihe fearful
reality now burst tie white Inhabitants and they
were awakened 10 the peril OF their Condition. The fire
spread during the whole night from field field, from
one estate 10 another long night OF horror and
ainty was al last succeeded by day aud the first gam
OF light discovered fresh indications OF the progress of the
revolt. Mill after mill on the revoted estates turned
into The wind TO lily urbended, and bol after bell
rung announce that the slaves OF such plantation had
joined the revolt" The insurgents broke into the stores
armed themselves with axes outasses anu whatever
other weapons they could find theD scattering
the country set IRE to olher plantations, destroying
a large amount OF valuable property. The sand,
however, put under martial law, force Of militia
organized, and, with body Of other troops,
sent alter the Insurgents, who were speedily subdued
The houses Of many of the negroes were destroyed and
nearly all the rngeaders were captured and executed on
the estates to which they belonged Thus ended the
great iIsurreetion, as 1t was called.
THE NEGRO PLOT OF l7lI IN NEW YORK.
In the year l712 the people of New York, which was
then a of eight or ten thousand Inhabitants
thrown into state Of great excitement by the
port that negroes intended instruction and
the whites, and take possession of place
Evidence of this design furnished and after trial
negroes found guilty and executed From this
time up 10 174i the year Of the great negro plot the city
occasionally alarmed by reports ofcOnspraces btno
outbreak occurred, nor there any proof that TIL this
period instruction intended. At this time
number OF houses were destroyed by fire.
and in such a to leave doubt that
II was the work OF incendaries AS we have
already remarked elsewhere, nearly all these nsurrec
tons 10 begin by setting fire to dwellings, and this
dnd was the first step In the bloody tragedy which was to
be played in New York Pie negroes 10 set fire 10 the
toun He might, and 10 XII TIE l,k,e people while they
endeavoring extnguish the flames One OF the
witnesses who testified against the insurgents stated that
1t had been arranged that several Of the conspraors
TO set fire different houses unttl tie 1ohoe toaot
burnt that their object 20 kin oil the gentlemen aud take
their uiues." The official investigations and the examina
OF witnesses resulted in the sutton of thirty per-
sons OF whom four whites the rest being negroes
or the negroes, fourteen burned ct the stake and
eighteen hanged