It’s like 10 days of fatigue before satan’s waterfall is periods appear

I've been having trouble with insomnia, but despite that, I feel more comfortable drawing at night, although I sometimes have existential crises..

WHAT YOU WERE NOT TAUGHT IN US SCHOOLS

A New York City Secret I bet you Wish You Didn’t Know…

This event is know as the 1741 Slave Conspiracy, though, to be honest, the 1741 enslaved persons, poor white persons, and free persons of color massacres would probably be more accurate.

Tensions were high in New York City in 1741. There was an economic downturn turn, the memory of the 1712 Slave Revolt was fresh in people’s mind, paranoia existed amongst wealthy whites that maybe those they enslaved were not happy, and 13 fires mysteriously broke out. Wealthy white people accused basically everyone who was not them of started these fires, and had a Salem Witch Trial-type legal proceeding which resulted in terrible consequences.

(Friends who always comment that I should mention people burned at the stake in Seneca Village Central Park…that never happened there…it DID however, happen here, as well as public hangings and deportations.)

Almost no one knows these events are immortalized in metal just outside the NYC courthouses in Foley Square.