The New York slave rebellion of 1741, also called the New York Conspiracy of 1741 and the Great Negro Plot of 1741, was a conspiracy between enslaved Africans and poor whites to burn down and take over New York City. Beginning in March of 1741, a series of fires were set at regular intervals in New York City. By April, rumors began to surface that a slave had been seen fleeing on foot from the scene of one of the fires. The city council appointed Daniel Horsmanden to lead the investigation in an effort to uncover the plot and its perpetrators who were connected to the fires and burglaries in the spring of 1741. He published his original account, titled The New-York Conspiracy; or, A History of the Negro Plot, with the Journal of the Proceedings, in 1744.