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Gabriel Prosser
" The sky flushed as they put him in the cart,
and suddenly Gabriel thought of others, the ones who were
to follow him, the ones who waited in their cells because of
his leadership, these and others, others, and still others, a
world of others who were to follow"( Gabriel's Rebellion).
Gabriel Prosser was a slave leader who in 1800 proposed a
plan to liberate slaves. Gabriel drew up a plan to free his
fellow slaves in Richmond, Virginia and the surrounding
countryside. Gabriel was a blacksmith, working in
Brookfield and in Richmond, who had learned to read and
write. He was inspired by the declarations of freedom during
the Revolutionary
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