“…spoke with reverence…”
“…General Gabriel…”
“…a torrent that gushed…”
“Frenchmen in Caroline County…”
“…it was Jack who recruited Gabriel…”
“…a blacksmith…”
“…widely known…”
“…the ear of an overseer.”
“…six feet five…”
“The low hairline on his brow…”
“…like the tail of a horse…”
“…by the scars on his face…”
“…Jupiter, who stole a hog…”
“Jupiter was found guilty…”
“…he was given benefit of clergy…”
“…spoke with reverence…”
Sidbury, J. (1997). Ploughshares into swords: Race, rebellion, and identity in Gabriel's Virginia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 264-65.
“…General Gabriel…”
Nicholls, Michael L. (2012). Whispers of Rebellion. University of Virginia Press, p. 10.
Schwarz, P. J. (2012). Gabriel's Conspiracy: A Documentary History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, p. 111.
“…a torrent that gushed…”
Nicholls, Michael L. (2012). Whispers of Rebellion. University of Virginia Press, p. 1.
“Frenchmen in Caroline County…”
Nicholls, Michael L. (2012). Whispers of Rebellion. University of Virginia Press, p. 4, 88.
“…it was Jack who recruited Gabriel…”
Nicholls, Michael L. (2012). Whispers of Rebellion. University of Virginia Press, p. 25.
“…a blacksmith…”
Nicholls, Michael L. (2012). Whispers of Rebellion. University of Virginia Press, p. 1.
“…widely known…”
This is from an interview conducted with Mick Nicholls, author of Whispers of Rebellion, which is the primary source for my retelling of Gabriel’s Rebellion.
“…the ear of an overseer.”
Schwarz, P. J. (2012). Gabriel's Conspiracy: A Documentary History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, p. ix.
“…six feet five…”
Nicholls, Michael L. (2012). Whispers of Rebellion. University of Virginia Press, p. 25.
“The low hairline on his brow…”
Schwarz, P. J. (2012). Gabriel's Conspiracy: A Documentary History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, pp. 74-75.
“…like the tail of a horse…”
Nicholls, Michael L. (2012). Whispers of Rebellion. University of Virginia Press, p. 25.
“…by the scars on his face…”
Nicholls, Michael L. (2012). Whispers of Rebellion. University of Virginia Press, p. 26.
“…Jupiter, who stole a hog…”
“Gabriel’s Challenge: Slaves and Crime in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia,” Philip J. Schwarz, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 90, No. 3, July 1982, p. 283.
“Jupiter was found guilty…”
“Gabriel’s Challenge: Slaves and Crime in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia,” Philip J. Schwarz, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 90, No. 3, July 1982, p. 301.
“…he was given benefit of clergy…”
“Gabriel’s Challenge: Slaves and Crime in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia,” Philip J. Schwarz, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 90, No. 3, July 1982, p. 303.