Feb. 25 program to focus on Gabriel's Rebellion
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Award-winning storyteller Valerie Davis will present a program entitled, "The Calm Before the Storm: The Slave Rebellion of 1800," Feb. 25 at 2:00 p.m. at St. John’s Church in Richmond. Davis will play the part of Nan Prosser, wife of Gabriel.
An enslaved man who lived at Brookfield, a tobacco plantation in Henrico, Gabriel Prosser plotted an 1800 slave uprising at nearby Young's Spring on Upham Brook. His plan, which would have involved multiple Virginia localities, was ultimately thwarted by a torrential thunderstorm that blocked roads and creeks, and by a leak of plot details to slave owners.
Tickets for Davis' presentation are $12 and can be purchased at https://historicstjohns.ticketspice.com/25-february-valerie-davis-as-nanny-prosser. Following Davis's performance, artist and storyteller IBé Crawley will briefly present her handmade book narrating the life of Delia Posey, an enslaved girl at Mount Vernon. Delia's story will be told and copies of the book will be available for purchase.
For details about the event, visit https://www.historicstjohnschurch.org/events/nanny-prosser.
For details about Gabriel's Rebellion, visit https://henrico.us/history/historical-figures/gabriels-rebellion/.
