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Collection Reference Number GLC06338.03
From Archive Folder Legal documents pertaining to the Easter Plot of 1802 
Title Indictment of Phiby in the Easter Plot
Date 1802
Author Scott, John B. (1761-1814)  
Document Type Legal document
Content Description Indictment of Phiby by Scott as Deputy Attorney for the Commonwealth in a court of Oyer and Terminer. Phiby, "a negro woman slave the property of Daniel Price," is charged with conspiring to create an insurrection and plotting murder on 6 April 1802. "That the said Pheby...did feloniously consult and conspire to make insurrection... And...did feloniously, wickedly & maliciously plot the death of Daniel Price...."
Subjects Slavery  Prisoner  Slave Rebellion  Judiciary  Law  Rebellion  African American History  Women's History  
People Scott, John B. (1761-1814)  Price, Daniel (fl. 1802)  Phebe (fl. 1802)  Sancho (d. 1802)  
Place written Halifax County, Virginia
Theme Law; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans; Women in American History
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