Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion Plan

Date: August 30, 1800 • Location: Stuarts Draft, United States

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1800.

Gabriel Prosser planned to hold a slave rebellion in Virginia, U.S., but it was postponed due to rain; he was captured before he could reschedule it.

Gabriel's Rebellion was a planned slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800. Information regarding the revolt was leaked before its execution, and Gabriel, an enslaved blacksmith who planned the event, and twenty-five of his followers were hanged.