Gabriel's Conspiracy : A Documentary History / Philip J. Schwarz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwarz, Philip J., 1940- author.

Series:

Carter lecture series.

Carter G. Woodson Institute Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave rebellions--Virginia--Richmond Region--History--Sources.

Slave rebellions.

Conspiracy--Virginia--Richmond Region--History--Sources.

Conspiracy.

Trials (Conspiracy)--Virginia--Richmond--History--19th century--Sources.

Trials (Conspiracy).

Prosser, Gabriel, approximately 1775-1800--Sources.

Prosser, Gabriel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2012]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Prelude to the conspiracy, 1783-1799

Rebellion planning intensifies, August 9, 1800-August 29, 1800

The failed rebellion and its aftermath, August 30, 1800-December 1, 1800

Aftershocks and postlude, December 3, 1800-September 6, 1802

Memories, April 1802-August 2007

Biographical appendix.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813933535

0813933536