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Berlin, Adele, Marc Zvi. Brettler, and Michael Fishbane. The Jewish Study Bible. New
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Boyce, John. Journal of John Boyce. 1798-1808. Manuscript. Library of Virginia,
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Daniel. New Jerusalem Bible. Print.
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Egerton, Douglas. Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 & 1802.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1993. Print.
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"Gabriel's Insurrection." Henrico County Historical Society Magazine Fall 1979. Print.
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General Asssembly, Virginia. Letters, Communications, and Evidence, 1800 December 5.
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Hogg, Garry. Hammer & Tongs: Blacksmithery down the Ages. Hutchison of London:
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Hurmence, Belinda, ed. We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard. Winston-Salem: John E.
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Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Pelican, 1964.
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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to James Monroe. 20 Sept. 1800. Thomas Jefferson Papers.
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Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family
from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic, 1985. Print.
Kambourian, Elizabeth. Signs and Sites Pertaining to the Gabriel Slave Conspiracy. MS.
Virginia Historical Society, Vertical File: Gabriel Prosser.
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Kimball, Fiske. The Capitol of Virginia: A Landmark of American Architecture.
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Kukla, Jon. "Richmond in the 1800s." Personal interview. 25 Feb. 2010.
Kukla, Jon. A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of
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Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the
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Lee, Lauranett L. "Sites and Stories: African American History in Virginia." Lecture.
Virginia Historical. Virginia Historical Society, 5 May 2009. Web. <http://
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"A Lens on American Cultural History: A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed."
2009 Library of Virginia Literary Luncheon. Richmond, Virginia. 17 Oct. 2009.
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Mack, Angela D., and Stephen G. Hoffius. Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in
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Mann, Charles C. "Tobacco, Mosquito, Slave: Colonial Virginia and the Dawn of
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Rucker, Walter C. The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity
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