Part 1: 1450-1750 Part 2: 1750-1805 --Part 3: 1791-1831 Part 4: 1831-1865 Narrative | Resource Bank | Teacher's Guide People & Events Gabriel's Conspiracy 1799 - 1800 Resource Bank Contents Gabriel was born in 1776, on Thomas Prosser's tobacco plantation in Henrico County, Virginia. When he was about ten, Gabriel and his brother Solomon began training as blacksmiths. Although almost nothing is ...

Historical Background of The Gabriel Prosser Slave Revolt from Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts, new edition, New York: International Publishers, 1974, pages 219-226 (original edition: Columbia University Press, 1943). Probably the most fateful year in the history of American Negro slave revolts is that of 1800, for it was then that Nat Turner and John Brown were born, that Denmark ...