Gabriel S Rebellion
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Gabriel S Rebellion
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Author : Douglas R. Egerton
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2000-11-09
Gabriel S Rebellion written by Douglas R. Egerton and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that underlay two related Virginia slave revolts: the first, in 1800, led by the slave known as Gabriel; and the second, called the 'Easter Plot,' instigated in 1802 by one of his followers. Although Gabriel has frequently been portrayed as a messianic, Samson-like figure, Egerton shows that he was a literate and highly skilled blacksmith whose primary goal was to destroy the economic hegemony of the 'merchants,' the only whites he ever identified as his enemies. According to Egerton, the social, political, and economic disorder of the Revolutionary era weakened some of the harsh controls that held slavery in place during colonial times. Emboldened by these conditions, a small number of literate slaves--most of them highly skilled artisans--planned an armed insurrection aimed at destroying slavery in Virginia. The intricate scheme failed, as did the Easter Plot that stemmed from it, and Gabriel and many of his followers were hanged. By placing the revolts within the broader context of the volatile political currents of the day, Egerton challenges the conventional understanding of race, class, and politics in the early days of the American republic.
Gabriel S Conspiracy
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Author : Philip J. Schwarz
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2012-12-24
Gabriel S Conspiracy written by Philip J. Schwarz and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-24 with History categories.
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.
Whispers Of Rebellion
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Author : Michael L. Nicholls
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2012-02-15
Whispers Of Rebellion written by Michael L. Nicholls and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-15 with History categories.
An ambitious but abortive plan to revolt that ended in the conviction and hanging of over two dozen men, Gabriel’s Conspiracy of 1800 sought nothing less than to capture the capital city of Richmond and end slavery in Virginia. Whispers of Rebellion draws on recent scholarship and extensive archival material to provide the clearest view yet of this fascinating chapter in the history of slavery—and to question much about the case that has been accepted as fact. In his examination of the slave Gabriel and his group of insurgents, Michael Nicholls focuses on the neighborhood of the Brook, north of Richmond, as the plot’s locus, revealing the area’s economic and familial ties, the geographic proximity of the key conspirators, and how their contacts allowed their plan to spread across three counties and into the cities of Richmond and Petersburg. Nicholls explores underdocumented aspects of the conspiracy, such as the participants’ recruitment and motives, showing them to be less ideologically driven than previously supposed. The author also 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.
Ploughshares Into Swords
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Author : James Sidbury
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-10-13
Ploughshares Into Swords written by James Sidbury and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-10-13 with History categories.
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'.
Black Thunder
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Author : Arna Bontemps
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Release Date : 1968
Black Thunder written by Arna Bontemps and has been published by Beacon Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Fiction categories.
"Black Thunder is the true story of a slave insurrection that failed ... Garbriel is a young slave, who ... decides to avenge the murder of a fellow-slave by leading the Negroes of Richmond, Virginia, against the landowners"--Cover.
Come August Come Freedom
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Author : Gigi Amateau
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2012-09-11
Come August Come Freedom written by Gigi Amateau and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-11 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
An 1800 insurrection planned by a literate slave known as "Prosser’s Gabriel" inspires a historical novel following one extraordinary man’s life. In a time of post-Revolutionary fervor in Richmond, Virginia, an imposing twenty-four-year-old slave named Gabriel, known for his courage and intellect, plotted a rebellion involving thousands of African- American freedom seekers armed with refashioned pitchforks and other implements of Gabriel’s blacksmith trade. The revolt would be thwarted by a confluence of fierce weather and human betrayal, but Gabriel retained his dignity to the end. History knows little of Gabriel’s early life. But here, author Gigi Amateau imagines a childhood shaped by a mother’s devotion, a father’s passion for liberation, and a friendship with a white master’s son who later proved cowardly and cruel. She gives vibrant life to Gabriel’s love for his wife-to-be, Nanny, a slave woman whose freedom he worked tirelessly, and futilely, to buy. Interwoven with original documents, this poignant, illuminating novel gives a personal face to a remarkable moment in history.
American Uprising
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Author : Daniel Rasmussen
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-01-04
American Uprising written by Daniel Rasmussen and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Social Science categories.
A gripping and deeply revealing history of an infamous slave rebellion that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed the course of American history In January 1811, five hundred slaves, dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes, rose up from the plantations around New Orleans and set out to conquer the city. Ethnically diverse, politically astute, and highly organized, this self-made army challenged not only the economic system of plantation agriculture but also American expansion. Their march represented the largest act of armed resistance against slavery in the history of the United States. American Uprising is the riveting and long-neglected story of this elaborate plot, the rebel army's dramatic march on the city, and its shocking conclusion. No North American slave uprising—not Gabriel Prosser's, not Denmark Vesey's, not Nat Turner's—has rivaled the scale of this rebellion either in terms of the number of the slaves involved or the number who were killed. More than one hundred slaves were slaughtered by federal troops and French planters, who then sought to write the event out of history and prevent the spread of the slaves' revolutionary philosophy. With the Haitian revolution a recent memory and the War of 1812 looming on the horizon, the revolt had epic consequences for America. Through groundbreaking original research, Daniel Rasmussen offers a window into the young, expansionist country, illuminating the early history of New Orleans and providing new insight into the path to the Civil War and the slave revolutionaries who fought and died for justice and the hope of freedom.
Whispers Of Rebellion
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Author : Michael L. Nicholls
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2012
Whispers Of Rebellion written by Michael L. Nicholls and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
This book examines Gabriel's Conspiracy of 1800, a failed plan to revolt and capture the capital city of Richmond and end slavery in Virginia, which resulted in the conviction and hanging of more than two dozen men.
American Negro Slave Revolts
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Author : Herbert Aptheker
language : en
Publisher: International Publishers Co
Release Date : 1983
American Negro Slave Revolts written by Herbert Aptheker and has been published by International Publishers Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
A pioneering work that demolished the widespread claims that African Americans accepted slavery and were passive. Exposed the true nature of slavery.
Louis Riel And Gabriel Dumont
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Author : Joseph Boyden
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Release Date : 2010
Louis Riel And Gabriel Dumont written by Joseph Boyden and has been published by Penguin Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188).