Roses adorn the African Burial Ground in Shockoe Bottom where the enslaved man Gabriel was hanged Oct. 10, 1800, for plotting an rebellion against his enslavers.
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Remembering Gabriel and the enslaved
More than 220 years after Gabriel planned a rebellion against his enslavers in Henrico in 1800, more than 80 people gathered at the site in Shockoe Bottom where he was executed and where roughly 22,000 other African-Americans of that time are buried.
