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Free Egunfemi of Untold RVA and visitors pay homage to Gabriel near a wall of placards at the African Burial Ground in Shockoe Bottom commemorating the freedom fighter. The placards were installed by Untold RVA.

Free Egunfemi of Untold RVA and visitors pay homage to Gabriel near a wall of placards at the African Burial Ground in Shockoe Bottom commemorating the freedom fighter. The placards were installed by Untold RVA.

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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.