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Saturday, 01 September 2007 |
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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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