For at least a week rumours had been circling around Mexico City and for much longer suspicion simmered. Holy Week had long been a time when ‘enemies’ of Christendom had decided to strike, now it was the free and enslaved Afro-Mexicans’ turn. They reportedly planned to rebel whilst the city was busy with religious observances, kill all the men, take their wives and property, and establish New Spain as an African kingdom. Consequentially, tensions had been rising and on Wednesday, 18 April 1612, they reached a boiling point. Chimalpahin – an Indigenous chronicler, eyewitness, and one of the two main sources on the conspiracy – noted how someone, in his opinion a ‘mischievous Spanish youth’, was shouting around the city that the revolt had begun. Chimalpahin also tells of the Spaniards’ response to this, characterized by intense fear; they reached ‘the ultimate of agitation and fright’, whilst they ‘blocked themselves off in their homes from their great fear’. More than this Chimalpahin relates some of the supposed revolt’s aims: ‘All the Spanish women were weeping, [thinking] that their spouses would leave them, because it was only the Spanish men who would be killed; the Spanish women would be left and the blacks would take them as wives’. No Afro-Mexican revolt materialized leaving the plot's existence in doubt, yet an investigation had been launched and soon after thirty-five Afro-Mexicans were hanged, drawn and quartered in Mexico City’s zocalo. Obs: This synopsis is merely an excerpt of McCracken 2026, p. 134, and several of the additional fields listed below are marked as 'tbc' (to be completed). The research for this entry is still in progress.