Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series)
Clearly written and exhaustively documented,Whispers of Rebellionwill immediately become the most complete and reliable account of Gabriel’s Conspiracy—generally recognized as one of the five or six most important examples of collective slave resistance in Anglo-America between 1700 and 1861.(James Sidbury, Rice University, author ofPloughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel’s Virginia, 1730–1810)Michael Nicholls’sWhispers of Rebellionexplores a community riven by the fault lines of slavery as well as anyone else has. This book will become the standard account of Gabriel’s Conspiracy.(Philip J. Schwarz, Virginia Commonwealth University, editor ofSlavery at the Home of George Washington(Virginia))Without question, Nicholls advances understanding of Gabriel’s sophisticated conspiracy.(American Historical Review)Whispers of Rebellionunquestionably and impressively succeeds in its main goal of providing a careful, scholarly, detailed, and, in many particulars, more accurate account of Gabriel’s conspiracy.(Journal of American History)