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Ploughshares into Swords - Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810 (Hardcover)
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Ploughshares into Swords - Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810 (Hardcover)
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During the summer of 1800, slaves in and around Richmond conspired
to overthrow their masters and abolish slavery. This book uses
Gabriel's Conspiracy, and the evidence produced during the
repression of the revolt, to expose the processes through which
Virginians of African descent built an oppositional culture.
Sidbury portrays the rich cultures of eighteenth-century black
Virginians, and the multiple, and sometimes conflicting, senses of
identity that emerged among enslaved and free people living in and
around the rapidly growing state capital. The book also examines
the conspirators' vision of themselves as God's chosen people, and
the complicated African and European roots of their culture. In so
doing, it offers an alternative interpretation of the meaning of
the Virginia that was home to so many of the Founding Fathers. This
narrative focuses on the history and perspectives of black and
enslaved people, in order to develop 'Gabriel's Virginia' as a
counterpoint to more common discussions of 'Jeffersonian Virginia'.
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