HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gabriel Prosser, Cotton Gin
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The trend towards improvement goes away quickly tho at the end of 1790s and rights get taken away. Slave uprisings happening in caribbean and state slave owners got worried it"d come to them. 1800 gabriel prosser rebellion- he"s from va and physically strong and big, very smart. Does odd jobs and travels around, drinks with white ppl and feels like they are developing a relationship thinking they have a lot in common. Prosser thinks him and white ppl and slaves could come together and form a rebellion but he was wrong. He saw class as most impt factor but white ppl saw race as most impt. Bad day for a rebellion and only him and 35 other slaves are captured and hanged. Invention of cotton gin brought on idea for more slaves. French were being kind and adams opened up negotiations with them. Alliance of 1778 recalled for u. s. and france.
