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Indictment of Absalum in the Easter Plot, 1802
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Indictment of Absalum in the Easter Plot, 1802.
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[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1802]
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Collection: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859.
Related to the Easter Plot, also known as Sancho's Rebellion. Sancho, an earlier participant in Gabriel's Rebellion of 1800, instigated the Easter Plot, intended to take place on or around Good Friday 1802. The ferment spread through southern Virginia (including Halifax County), and northeastern North Carolina, resulting in the hanging of Sancho and four other participants.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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Summary
Indictment of Absalum by Scott as Deputy Attorney for the Commonwealth in a court of Oyer and Terminer. Absalum, a negro man slave of the estate of John Hilyard, is charged with conspiring to create an insurrection and plotting murder on 14 April 1802. That the said Absalum...did feloniously consult and conspire to make insurrection... And...did feloniously, wickedly & maliciously plot the murder of sundry persons contrary to the act of Assembly intituled 'An Act to reduce into one the several Acts concerning Slaves, free Negroes and Mulattoes, and against the Peace & Dignity of the Commonwealth
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American history, 1493-1945. Module I.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 18, 2024
Series
American history module 1
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Legal instruments
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, owner.
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