1800-Sep.-30: The Virginia Argus provided extensive coverage of the aftermath of Gabriel Prosser’s attempted slave insurrection in Richmond.

1800-Sep.-30: The Virginia Argus provided extensive coverage of the aftermath of Gabriel Prosser’s attempted slave insurrection in Richmond. The newspaper explicitly linked the local conspiracy to the “example of Saint-Domingue” and the “success of Toussaint.” Articles in the Argus debated whether the presence of French-speaking black refugees had facilitated the spread of revolutionary ideas to Virginia’s plantations. The coverage reflected the deep-seated fear among the American elite that the Haitian Revolution had become a domestic threat. This source serves as a primary record of the direct ideological link between the Caribbean and North American slave resistance.