Free Egunfemi of Untold RVA and visitors pay homage to Gabriel near a wall of placards at the African Burial Ground in Shockoe Bottom commemorating the freedom fighter. The placards were installed by Untold RVA.
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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.
