Pamela Bingham, a direct descendant of Gabriel, speaks to more than 80 people attending Sunday’s event, called the Gabriel Gathering, to memorialize the 221st anniversary of Gabriel’s death on the site.
Stories this photo appears in:
Remembering Gabriel and the enslaved
More than 220 years after Gabriel planned a rebellion against his enslavers in Henrico in 1800, more than 80 people gathered at the site in Shockoe Bottom where he was executed and where roughly 22,000 other African-Americans of that time are buried.
