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

1800-Sep.-30: The Virginia Argus provided extensive coverage of the aftermath of Gabriel Prosser’s attempted insurrection of the enslaved 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 resistance by the enslaved in North America.