I wanted to share a revolt that stuck out to me; the Louisiana uprising in 1811 started three major slave plots in the nineteenth century. The first was Gabriel’s Rebellion, Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy, then the rebellion organized by Nat Turner. The first and most impressionable to me was Gabriel’s Rebellion, led by brothers, Gabriel and Martin Prosser, a slave preacher. The rebellion was organized in Richmond, Virginia in 1800. Martin used his time as a preacher to organize slaves at funerals and secret religious meetings. He preached the story of the Israelites escaping Egyptian bondage to justify rebellion. The plan was to march on Richmond from surrounding plantations; seize the city’s arsenal and kill all the white residents. What made