Writing | Interconnectedness, Coincidence, Synchronicity, or a Convergence Point

Cholera reached the major European centers in 1831. When it reached England that year, the New York City Board of Health asked three prominent physicians to strengthen quarantine measures on September 6, 1831. The first case of cholera hit New York City on July 2, 1832.

From 1776 to 1783, Britain used New York Harbor and Wallabout Bay to imprison Americans in prison hulks. For a resident of Lower Manhattan, the land-based prisons and the prison ships were not a distant rumor, but a major part of the harbor landscape.

The British and the Patriots blamed each other for the fire, but there is no definitive proof showing who started it. Although not the worst New York disaster, it occurred at a pivotal moment in the American Revolution when Britain had just imposed martial law.

Was the New York Conspiracy of 1741 a real uprising, or was it paranoia like the Salem Witch Trials?

In 1711, New York City had 6,000 to 8,000 residents, with about 1,000 enslaved individuals. Their separate ownership allowed the enslaved frequent contact with each other. Enslaved workers would roam the city looking for work, allowing them to fraternize. More African compatriots arrived by the transatlantic slave route daily. This made whites nervous.