studied. They were reburied in a formal ceremony. Likely the site of up to 20,000 African burials during the colonial period, it has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. Women's role Mary Burton, Sarah Hughson, and Peggy Kerry were three women whose testimony was instrumental in the outcomes of the trials during the slave revolt. Burton's most notable accusations were against John Ury. Hughson also gave testimony against Ury, however her testimony only came once threatened with death. Kerry, when first confronted, denied everything, but, later, in hopes of being pardoned, said she had been involved and shifted the location of the conspiracy itself. Representation in fiction The events are the subject of the novel The Savage City (1955) by Jean Paradise, published by Ace Books. 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 to 1930. 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 during these events. The events are recounted by a prisoner in Golden Hill by Francis Stufford. References Further reading Bond, Richard E. "Shaping a Conspiracy: Black Testimony in the 1741 New York", Early American Studies, vol. 5, n. 1 (Spring 2007). University of Pennsylvania Press: Berrol, Selma Cantor. The Empire City: New York and Its People, 1624–1996. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1997 Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 Campbell, Ballard C. Campbell, ed. American Disasters: 201 Calamities That Shook the Nation (2008), p. 24. Christensen, Gardello Dano . Colonial New York. New York: Thomas Nelson Press Inc., 1969. Davis, Thomas J. A Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York. New York: Free Press, 1985. (Republished 1990 by Amherst: University of Massachusetts.) Hoffer, Peter Charles. The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741: Slavery, Crime and Colonial Law Zabin, Serena R., ed. The New York conspiracy trials of 1741 : Daniel Horsmanden's Journal of the proceedings with related documents Kammen, Michael. Colonial New York: A History. Millwood, NJ: K+O Press, 1975. Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. "'The Outcasts of the Nations of the Earth,'" in The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History