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Gabriel
In the Bible, one of the archangels. In the Old Testament he was the heavenly messenger sent to explain Daniel's visions, and in the New Testament he revealed to Zechariah the coming birth of John the Baptist and appeared to Mary in the Annunciation to tell her she was to be the mother of Jesus. In Christian tradition it is believed that he will blow the trumpet on Judgment Day. In the Quran, he is known as Jibril.

Amer. slave who planned the first slave rebellion in U.S. history. Born near Richmond, Va., to an African-born mother, he grew up as the slave of Thomas H. Prosser. In 1800 the deeply religious Gabriel planned a slave insurrection to create an independent slave state in Virginia with himself as king. Intending to attack Richmond and kill all whites except Frenchmen, Methodists, and Quakers, he assembled 1,000 slaves outside the city on August 30, but a violent rainstorm washed out bridges and scattered the rebels. Before they could reassemble, Gov. J. Monroe learned of the plot and ordered out the state militia. Gabriel and 34 others were arrested, tried, and hanged.

In the Bible, one of the archangels. In the Old Testament he was the heavenly messenger sent to explain Daniel's visions, and in the New Testament he revealed to Zechariah the coming birth of John the Baptist and appeared to Mary in the Annunciation to tell her she was to be the mother of Jesus. In Christian tradition it is believed that he will blow the trumpet on Judgment Day. In the Quran, he is known as Jibril.

Amer. slave who planned the first slave rebellion in U.S. history. Born near Richmond, Va., to an African-born mother, he grew up as the slave of Thomas H. Prosser. In 1800 the deeply religious Gabriel planned a slave insurrection to create an independent slave state in Virginia with himself as king. Intending to attack Richmond and kill all whites except Frenchmen, Methodists, and Quakers, he assembled 1,000 slaves outside the city on August 30, but a violent rainstorm washed out bridges and scattered the rebels. Before they could reassemble, Gov. J. Monroe learned of the plot and ordered out the state militia. Gabriel and 34 others were arrested, tried, and hanged.


bard
Celtic tribal poet-singers gifted in composing and reciting verses of eulogy and satire or of heroes and their deeds. The institution died out in Gaul but survived in Ireland, where bards have preserved a tradition of chanting poetic eulogy, and in Wales, where the bardic order was codified into distinct grades in the 10th cent. Despite a decline in the late Middle Ages, the Welsh tradition is celebrated in the annual National Eisteddfod.


Cabral
Guinean nationalist politician. In 1956 he founded the Partido Africano da Independ\u00ea ncia da Guin\u00e9 e Cabo Verde (PAIGC), which in 1962 began a war of liberation against Portuguese forces. By the late 1960s Cabral controlled much of Portuguese Guinea. He was assassinated in ...

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