The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a
literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before they could be executed, and he and
twenty-five other enslaved people were hanged. In reaction to the plot, the Virginia and other
legislatures passed restrictions on free blacks, as well as on the education, movement, and hiring
out of the enslaved. Although Gabriel's conspiracy is well known among historians, documents
relating to it have remained relatively inaccessible. In Gabriel's
Conspiracy, Philip J. Schwarz offers a valuable selection of the documents discovered to
date. Together with Michael Nicholls's complementary book, Whispers of
Rebellion (Virginia), these volumes offer a complete account of the quashed slave
conspiracy.
Copyright:
2012
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ISBN-13:
9780813933535
Related ISBNs:
9780813932941
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press
Date of Addition:
05/07/13
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the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia