As time progressed in America during the 1800s, slavery proved to become more and more of an issue that simply could not be ignored, and incidentally, a polarizing issue which acted as a knife slowly delving into the 'United' States of America. And as it progressively crescendoed to more of a major issue, it came with its consequences of its perpetuation. One of these consequences, perhaps one of the most destructive, were slave rebellions and conspiracies. Though no rebellion or conspiracy ever came successful to achieving its goal (of course with conspiracy never achieving its goal), either being aborted or sabotaged, each left an impact that would have to be addressed at some point. One of said rebellions (in a sense, the lack thereof) which, nonetheless, left a big impact in antebellum America would be Gabriel's Conspiracy. …show more content…
The rebellion was still being formulated, but would be thwarted in the planning stage. In its essence, the rebellion plan was formulated by one person named Gabriel "Prosser". Gabriel Prosser, was a slave born in 1776 on the "Prosser Plantation" near Richmond, Virginia, who learned to read, write, and learned how to be a blacksmith All of those things obscure things to do with slaves; but nonetheless, occurrences happening less often than not. With these nifty skill sets, he was given small freedoms compared to his fellow slaves and he could work elsewhere too. As time went on, he began, piece by piece, putting together a plan with a speculated amount of 1,000 armed people and rally them to freedom. A risk that should have been considered is that telling too many people or all the wrong people could compromise the entire mission, but it would have been the only logical way to create a large scale rebellion to take down the slavery