Abolition Project

First meeting in Philadelphia of Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully held in Bondage

1775

It was created to improve the conditions o African Americans.

Gabriel’s Revolution

1800

Gabriel's Conspiracy was a plan by enslaved African American men to attack Richmond and destroy slavery in Virginia. Although thwarted, it remains one of the half-dozen most important insurrection plots in the history of North American slavery.