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	Africans in America/Part 3/Gabriel's Conspiracy
		Gabriel was born in 1776, on Thomas Prosser's tobacco plantation in Henrico County, Virginia.
		Gabriel was unusually intelligent, and unusually large; by the age of 20 he was six feet, two or three inches tall, and was enormously strong from his years of smithing.
		Gabriel experienced several strong influences: the rhetoric of the American Revolution; the uprising in Saint Domingue, the radical words of white artisans who championed the working class; the success exhibited by free fls; his own hatred of the merchants who routinely cheated the slaves they hired; his desire to be free and to prosper.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part3/3p1576.html (1618 words)

	Gabriel Prosser -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thus Gabriel found Richmond too heavily defended for the attack to continue, although as much as 1000 slaves had gathered on the outskirts.
		Gabriel tried to escape by schooner, but was spotted and betrayed by two fellow slaves.
		Gabriel was brought before Monroe for questioning, but would not submit.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ga/gabriel_prosser.htm (263 words)

	KAM Denmark Vesey and Gabriel Prosser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gabriel Prosser would be the first to carry on Toussaint's battle cry.
		It was said that Gabriel was a deeply religous man who wore his long hair in imitation of his biblical idol, Samson.
		Gabriel's plans were never able to come to pass however for the plot was betrayed by a house slave to his master.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Classroom/9912/veseyprosser.html (311 words)

	MSN Encarta - Gabriel Prosser
		Prosser, Gabriel (1776?-1800?), American leader of an aborted slave uprising, whose intention was to create a free fl state in Virginia.
		A torrential downpour and thunderstorm, however, washed away a bridge vital to the insurrectionists' march; at the same time Governor James Monroe, the future president, was informed of the plot and dispatched the state militia against them.
		Prosser and some 35 of his young comrades were captured and hanged.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559981/Gabriel_Prosser.html (154 words)

	Prosser Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gabriel, also known as Gabriel Prosser, was an intelligent and deeply religious man. He was strongly influenced by the Biblical example of the Jews' flight for freedom as well as the 1790 slave revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti).
		Gabriel Prosser, however, would demonstrate that not all fls were satisfied with a life of servitude.
		Gabriel's army, estimated at about 1,000 slaves, gathered six miles outside Richmond on the night of August 30, 1800; they might have succeeded in their initial goals had a violent rainstorm not washed away bridges and flooded the roads.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /secessioncrisis/prosserrebellion.html (368 words)

	Henrico County - Recreation and Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gabriel was born in 1776, a slave to Thomas Prosser from Brookfield Plantation.
		Gabriel was appointed leader of a rebellion in the summer of 1800.
		Gabriel was executed at the Gallows on October 10, 1800, the last of twenty six to be executed.
	www.co.henrico.va.us /rec/gabriel.htm (817 words)

	Gabriel Prosser
		Gabriel Prosser, the slave of Thomas H. Prosser, was about 25 years old when he came to the attention of Virginia authorities late in August 1800.
		Gabriel Prosser learned to read and was a serious student of the Bible, where he found inspiration in the accounts of Israel's delivery from slavery.
		Prosser decided to postpone the attack until the next day, but by then the city was too well defended.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/gabriel_prosser.htm (531 words)

	DeFord, on Gabriel Prosser, fm WP 02.06.00
		Gabriel was allowed to hire himself out under an illegal but popular practice that rewarded his owner with a percentage of his wages and left a few coins in Gabriel's pocket as well, gaining him precisely the sense of self-sufficiency that Virginia elites had feared.
		Gabriel's plan, as it matured in the spring and summer of 1800, called for slaves from several surrounding counties to gather late one night at the brook bridge near Prosser's plantation.
		Another task that Gabriel and his men pursued was to coax the keys to the Capitol from the doorkeeper, an old man of mixed parentage who remained noncommittal as to whether he would aid their fight.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/gbi/defordprosser00.html (3572 words)

	Gabriel Prosser
		The Gabriel Prosser Conspiracy of 1800 was one of the earliest and most extensively planned slave insurrections in American history.
		Prosser's strong opposition to slavery and his sense of impending political crisis facing the nation persuaded him that the time for insurrection had come.
		Prosser estimated that between 500 and 600 slaves stood poised that night to become the first in America to break the shackles of slavery.
	www.wntb.com /blackachievers/gabrielprosser (511 words)

	Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802, by Douglas R. Egerton. Preface. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802, by Douglas R. Egerton.
		Most of all, the Gabriel who engineered a complex conspiracy with branches in at least three Virginia cities was no apolitical servant but a literate artisan whose breadth of vision was truly international.
		But Gabriel's short life— and the chain of events he precipitated—were dramatic, and it would be a nearly criminal act if the story did not unfold for the reader as it did for those who lived through it.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/egerton_gabriels.html (1785 words)

	Genovese, Slave Revolts in Hemispheric Perspective (1981)
		Gabriel Prosser was a flsmith whose militant politico-religious temperament placed him in a long line of artisan and skilled-slave revolutionaries.
		Gabriel Prosser, despite warnings from within his own camp, stressed Christian secular appeals and, to his cost, slighted the folk religion the country slaves, who retained stronger links to their African past.
		Gabriel Prosser sought to seize Richmond--a realistic objective in view of its indifferent defenses--and to inflict enough blows on the whites to bring them to unspecified terms.
	www.virginia.edu /woodson/courses/aas405c/genovese.html (12785 words)

	6th Grade Rome Projects
		In the year of 1776, "a slave child named Gabriel was born to the family owned by Thomas Henry prosser of the brookfield Plantation in Henrico County." Gabriel was a dark-skinned man who stood 6 feet, 2 or 3 inches tall; he lost his two front teeth, and was really scarred.
		Gabriel was able to escape the militia and he tried to leave.
		On Ontocer 10, 1800, Gabriel Prosser was hung, at the age of 24, at the Richmond gallows at 15th and Broad Streets.
	tlc.ousd.k12.ca.us /montera/students/Stamps/stamps.htm (3337 words)

	African American Journey: Prosser, Gabriel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gabriel Prosser, a fl slave, planned a major slave revolt with the goal of making Virginia a state for fls.
		Prosser and his followers intended to attack Richmond, Virginia, the state capital.
		Prosser and about 34 followers were soon captured and hanged.
	www.worldbook.com /wc/features/aajourney/html/aa_1_prosser.shtml (144 words)

	Signs of the Times - Virginia Board Balks at Plan to Commemorate Slave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Beason and other proponents countered the violence argument by pointing out that Prosser was moved by the spirit of freedom--as were the nation's Founding Fathers and the Confederate soldiers who are commemorated by dozens of statues and markers throughout the county.
		Prosser's army, estimated at 1,000 slaves, gathered six miles outside Richmond on Aug. 30, 1800.
		But they acknowledged that Prosser visited the county and that several slaves from Caroline were involved in the plan--nine were caught and five were hanged.
	www.loper.org /~george/trends/2000/Dec/92.html (1269 words)

	Slave Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gabriel Prosser was born near Richmond, Virginia in 1775.
		Gabriel was the son of an African mother and the slave of Thomas H. Prosser.
		Gabriel and 34 of his companions were taken into custody, tried and hanged.
	multirace.org /firstday/first31.htm (793 words)

	The Freedom Fighting Spirit of Prosser,
		Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner each emphatically protested the institution to the extent that it cost them their lives and the lives of their followers.
		Both Prosser and Vesey's plans called for several hundred men to take the city by surprise at night, gather arms, burn warehouses, possibly take the governor hostage, and inciting a massive insurrection in the city.
		Although Prosser's and Vesey's intrigues were unsuccessful, word of their attempts toward freedom hit plantations in neighboring counties and helped to fuel other freedom-fighting efforts.
	www.nubiannews.com /news/freedom.htm (1079 words)

	Slave Rebellions
		All of the major slave revolts in the south were led by people like Prosser, who were deeply Christian and were fired by religious indignation against slavery.
		Prosser's revolt was the closest America came to a revolution on the same scale as that in Haiti.
		He had grown up deeply hating slavery; his mother, an African, so hated slavery that she tried to kill him when he was born in 1800 to prevent him from living the life of a slave.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/DIASPORA/REBEL.HTM (1574 words)

	The HistoryMakers
		Gabriel Prosser begins a slave uprising in Richmond, Virginia on this date.
		Approximately one thousand slaves, led by Gabriele Prosser, attempt an uprising in Richmond, Virginia.
		Gabriel Prosser was hung on this date for leading a slave revolt near Richmond, Virginia.
	www.thehistorymakers.com /timeline/index.asp?string=1800 (252 words)

	Chapter 1 of Turner Manuscript
		Whatever Prosser’s religious stripe, scholars generally agree, as Wilmore wrote, "The Gabriel plot was probably the first well-planned, consciously revolutionary attempt in a long history of slave revolts on the mainland" (Black Religion and Black Radicalism, p.
		That Virginia produced one more great leader, in the person of Gabriel Prosser, was not surprising to those who were intimate with the genius of men such as Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.
		In contrast to Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey used the Bible to substantiate the legitimacy of his Rebellion.
	www.nathanielturner.com /scholarsacredfolklore.htm (1564 words)

	People's Weekly World Newspaper Online - African-American history: The Gabriel Prosser slave revolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This Gabriel, the chosen leader of the rebellious slaves, was a 24-year-old giant of six feet two inches, “a fellow of courage and intellect above his rank in life,” who had intended “to purchase a piece of silk for a flag, on which they would have written ‘death or liberty.’”
		Gabriel’s wife, Nanny, was active, too, as were his brothers, Solomon and Martin.
		Gabriel had attempted to escape via a schooner, Mary, but when in Norfolk on Sept. 25, he was recognized and betrayed by two Negroes, captured and brought back, in chains, to Richmond.
	www.pww.org /article/articleview/683/0 (1653 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Gabriel Prosser \| PBS
		Gabriel became a deeply religious man, strongly influenced by biblical example.
		Some historians believe that Gabriel's army of 1,000 slaves (estimates range from 2,000 to 50,000), assembled 6 miles (9.5 km) outside the city on the appointed night, might have succeeded had it not been for a violent rainstorm that washed out bridges and inundated roads.
		Gabriel and about 34 of his companions were subsequently arrested, tried, and hanged.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/gabriel.html (221 words)

	Struggles For Freedom: Haiti as a Beacon of Freedom: Influence on African-Americans - Haiti-inspired slave revolts in ...
		Gabriel Prosser worked as a flsmith on the Brookfield Plantation in Henrico County, Virginia, not too far from Richmond.
		Prosser managed to escape, but was eventually captured on board a ship in Norfolk.
		Prosser’s aborted revolt achieved the opposite reaction of its intended objectives.
	www.haiti-usa.org /historical/index.php?part=004 (326 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802
		The more important of the two revolts was led by Gabriel Prosser, a much mythologized figure whom Egerton tries to recover from his murky past.
		As reconstructed by Egerton, Gabriel was a flsmith whose skill gave him a special status--he was allowed to hire himself out off the plantation; he led his rebellion against the white merchant class, who exploited laborers like himself.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0807821136 (389 words)

	The History Guy: Slave Rebellions and Uprisings in the U.S.
		The rebels broke up and Prosser was betrayed by one of his followers.
		The state militia captured Prosser and he and many of his followers were hanged.
		He gathered up his seven original followers and, without the organization or planning of Prosser and Vesey, launched his rebellion by entering his owner's home and killing the entire family, save for a small infant.
	www.historyguy.com /slave_rebellions_usa.htm (820 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| Indentured servant Gabriel is honored (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		More than two centuries ago, Gabriel, a flsmith and indentured servant, organized what was to have been one of the largest slave revolts in American history, only to see foul weather and betrayal foil his plans.
		Gabriel Prosser is an inspiration for attempting to do something that monumental at a time when resources for slaves were phenomenally low."
		Some historians estimate that Gabriel's movement recruited between 2,000 and 5,000 slaves throughout Virginia to participate in the revolt, an extraordinary feat of organization for the time.
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031778455328&path=!news&s=1045855934842 (566 words)

	African American Registry: Freedom fighter Gabriel Prosser had a vision
		A slave child, Gabriel was born to the family owned by Thomas Henry Prosser of the Brookfield Plantation in Henrico County, Virginia.
		In 1800, Prosser and several other slaves plotted their own revolution, planning to marshal the forces of up to 10,000 fls, who would take Richmond in an armed revolution, kill every white, and save the French, the Methodists, the Quakers and the poor.
		Prosser would herald the cause of independence for himself and for all slaves.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/268/Freedom_fighter_Gabri... (448 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -IV. Slave Rebellions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first was Gabriel's Rebellion, organized in 1800 by a Richmond flsmith, Gabriel Prosser, and his brother Martin, a slave preacher.
		Gabriel Prosser was, in a sense, a typical Virginian of Jefferson's day—he couched his opposition to slavery in the language of the rights of man and the Declaration of Independence.
		The rebels planned to march on Richmond from surrounding plantations, seize the city arsenal, and kill all the white residents except Quakers and Methodists (many of whom were opposed to slavery) and the French (the United States was engaged in an undeclared war with France).
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_079304_ivslaverebel.htm (1182 words)

	JEWSWEEK - The real story of Liberia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gabriel Prosser, a 25-year-old slave, was taught to read and write by his plantation owner, Thomas Prosser.
		Clearly, Gabriel was aware of William Penn and the Quakers' historic opposition to slavery.
		Gabriel's wife, who made swords and other weapons in her slave quarters, offers a vivid picture of her husband: "Before Gabriel would any longer bear what he has borne, he would rather turn out and fight with his stick."
	www.jewsweek.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l620&enZone=Opinions&enVersion=0& (890 words)

	Historical Background of the Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt
		Between Prosser's and Richmond, there is a place called Brook Swamp which runs across the high road, and over which there was a [MS torn] bridge.
		Gabriel had attempted to escape via a schooner, Mary, but when in Norfolk on September 25, he was recognized and betrayed by two Negroes, captured, and brought back, in chains, to Richmond.
		Along with Gabriel fifteen other rebels were hanged on the seventh of October.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/spl/gabrielrevolt.html (1102 words)

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