This article discusses the experience of looking in the archive for an enslaved Black man named ‘Othello.’ The text interweaves personal experience and narrative form with archival findings from the New York Public Library. Othello is among the “alleged multi-racial conspirators” in the 1741 New York Conspiracy. This text interrogates the category of “property” and imagines the life of Othello and other enslaved Black people. Engages in issues of archival absences, Shakespeare, and contemporary politics.