Gov. Timothy M. Kaine is informally pardoning the slave Gabriel, hanged for leading a failed slave revolt in Virginia more than 200 years ago this week. In restoring Gabriel's "good name," Kaine said the slave, put to death in 1800 with 34 other African-Americans, was motivated by "his devotion to the ideals of the American revolution -- it was worth risking death to secure liberty."  Read more at inRich.com

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