MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Question
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Gabriel’s Rebellion
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The Stono Rebellion
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion
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The Haitian Revolution
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Haitian Revolution inspired a slave insurrection in Virginia in 1800, known as Gabriel’s Revolt. This event terrified Jefferson.
Detailed explanation-2: -1. Stono Rebellion, 1739. The Stono Rebellion was the largest slave revolt ever staged in the 13 colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1800, a highly intelligent and literate enslaved man named Gabriel, who was owned by Thomas Henry Prosser of Brookfield plantation in Henrico County, conceived and organized a plan for a widespread slave uprising.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gabriel’s Rebellion was a planned slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia, area in the summer of 1800.
Detailed explanation-5: -On Christmas Day 1521, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, the first recorded slave revolt in the Americas occurred. A group of African, likely Wolof, slaves came together with native Indians led by the Taíno cacique Enriquillo to assert their independence.