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Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
Slave insurrections --- Prosser, Gabriel, --- Virginia --- History --- Slave rebellions
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Slave rebellions --- Conspiracy --- Trials (Conspiracy) --- History --- Prosser, Gabriel,
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Slave insurrections --- African Americans --- Prosser, Gabriel, --- Virginia --- History
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During the summer of 1800, slaves in and around Richmond conspired to overthrow their masters and abolish slavery. This book uses Gabriel's Conspiracy, and the evidence produced during the repression of the revolt, to expose the processes through which Virginians of African descent built an oppositional culture. Sidbury portrays the rich cultures of eighteenth-century black Virginians, and the multiple, and sometimes conflicting, senses of identity that emerged among enslaved and free people living in and around the rapidly growing state capital. The book also examines the conspirators' vision of themselves as God's chosen people, and the complicated African and European roots of their culture. In so doing, it offers an alternative interpretation of the meaning of the Virginia that was home to so many of the Founding Fathers. This narrative focuses on the history and perspectives of black and enslaved people, in order to develop 'Gabriel's Virginia' as a counterpoint to more common discussions of 'Jeffersonian Virginia'.
Slavery --- Virginia --- Richmond Region (Va.) --- Insurrections, etc. --- Race relations --- History --- 1775-1865 --- Prosser, Gabriel --- Arts and Humanities --- Slave insurrections --- Prosser, Gabriel, --- Race relations. --- Slave rebellions --- Slave revolts --- Revolutions
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The author looks at the state's swift and brutal response, and argues persuasively that, rather than the coalition between blacks and whites that has been described in other accounts, the participants were all slaves or free blacks, suffering under an oppressive white population and willing to die for their freedom.
Trials (Conspiracy) --- Conspiracy --- Slavery --- Slave insurrections --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Slave rebellions --- Slave revolts --- Revolutions --- Crime --- Inchoate offenses --- Torts --- History --- History. --- Insurrections, etc. --- Prosser, Gabriel, --- Richmond (Va.) --- Richmond City (Va.) --- City of Richmond (Va.) --- ريتشموند (Va.) --- Rītshmūnd (Va.) --- Горад Рычманд (Va.) --- Horad Rychmand (Va.) --- Рычманд (Va.) --- Rychmand (Va.) --- Ричмънд (Va.) --- Richmŭnd (Va.) --- Ρίτσμοντ (Va.) --- Ritsmont (Va.) --- 리치먼드 (Va.) --- Rich'imŏndŭ (Va.) --- ריצ'מונד (Va.) --- Rits'mond (Va.) --- Ричмонд (Va.) --- Ricmondia (Va.) --- Ričmonda (Va.) --- Ričmond (Va.) --- リッチモンド (Va.) --- Ritchimondo (Va.) --- Rychmond (Va.) --- Ričmonds (Va.) --- 里士满 (Va.) --- Lishiman (Va.) --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Enslaved persons
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