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effect on pre-Civil War social attitudes
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involvement in slave rebellion
- In slave rebellions
- In slavery: Slave protest

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 05, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Aug 28, 2023
	Modified age appropriateness: BlackPast.org - Biography of Gabriel Prosser.	Grace Young	May 01, 2014
	Add new Web site: BlackPast.org - Biography of Gabriel Prosser.	Grace Young	Feb 17, 2014
	Article revised and updated.	Michael Ray	Sep 17, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998