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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06338.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Legal documents pertaining to the Easter Plot of 1802 |
| Title | Indictment of Absalum in the Easter Plot |
| Date | 1802 |
| Author | Scott, John B. (1761-1814) |
| Document Type | Legal document |
| Content Description | Indictment of Absalum by Scott as Deputy Attorney for the Commonwealth in a court of Oyer and Terminer. Absalum, "a negro man slave of the estate of John Hilyard," is charged with conspiring to create an insurrection and plotting murder on 14 April 1802. "That the said Absalum...did feloniously consult and conspire to make insurrection... And...did feloniously, wickedly & maliciously plot the murder of sundry persons contrary to the act of Assembly intituled 'An Act to reduce into one the several Acts concerning Slaves, free Negroes and Mulattoes, and against the Peace & Dignity of the Commonwealth" |
| Subjects | Slavery Prisoner Slave Rebellion Judiciary Law Rebellion African American History |
| People | Scott, John B. (1761-1814) Hilyard, John (fl. 1802) Absalum (d. 1802) Sancho (d. 1802) |
| Place written | Halifax County, Virginia |
| Theme | Law; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Additional Information | Related to the Easter Plot, also known as Sancho's Rebellion. Sancho, an earlier participant in Gabriel's Rebellion of 1800, instigated the Easter Plot, intended to take place on or around Good Friday 1802. The ferment spread through southern Virginia (including Halifax County), and northeastern North Carolina, resulting in the hanging of Sancho and four other participants. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |