WI Prosser's Rebellion NOT postponed due to storm.

In 1800, Gabriel Prosser was a free black who planned a large revolt in Virginia, however it was postponed due to a storm then found out about. What would have happened if it had erupted. Im interested in:
a) How long would this rebellion last before being whiped out
b) Likelyhood of Nat Turner's Rebellion afterwords
c)Any butterflys that may become of this.
 
Well,
There would be some violence, and all the men would die when people take out their guns in self defense,

If it does succeed, however, (First of all, on a joking note Methodists, Quakers, and Frenchmen wouldn't be minorities at that time in Richmond).

More slaves would rebell, drawing the attentions of The President John Adams, and would certainly cause uproar in the South.

If Nat Turner's uprising is any indicators, hundreds of blacks will be persecuted afterwards unless John Adam intervenes. This means there is a more slavery opposed North, and a Hysterically paranoid South. Earlier Civil War, perhaps?
 
I think Nat Turner's revolt would be a bit less likely if there was a major slave revolt only thirty years earlier. The Prosser revolt would likely lead to earlier laws outlawing the education of slaves, as well as more severe restrictions on the right of blacks to travel without permission, per OTL. That would make it difficult for a figure like Turner to travel around organizing a revolt, though it would not make it impossible since he was a preacher.

I don't think the earlier slave revolt would lead to as great a sectional discord, as abolitionism was in its infancy in the North, except amongst Quakers and other religious minorities who had very limited political influence. In addition, both Adams and Jefferson nominally had the same positions on slavery, so it would hardly polarize the electorate, though I can see Jefferson flip flopping on the issue if his intellectual abolitionism became a liability for the Republicans. His commitment to abolitionism never more than skin deep.

The most important legacy would probably be that US blacks would have even lower levels of literacy after Civil War, since teaching them would have been illegal for a full three generations before the Civil War.
 
Well,
There would be some violence, and all the men would die when people take out their guns in self defense,

If it does succeed, however, (First of all, on a joking note Methodists, Quakers, and Frenchmen wouldn't be minorities at that time in Richmond).

More slaves would rebell, drawing the attentions of The President John Adams, and would certainly cause uproar in the South.

If Nat Turner's uprising is any indicators, hundreds of blacks will be persecuted afterwards unless John Adam intervenes. This means there is a more slavery opposed North, and a Hysterically paranoid South. Earlier Civil War, perhaps?

Probably an even more socially controlled and engineered South that what already existed, as well............


Anyway, I'd think it'd be a only a matter of time before more blacks start standing up for themselves...........this might scare the living s*** of the wealthy planters but I wouldn't be surprised if an escaped slave or two is able to relay just how awful life was on most of these plantations........some poor Southerners might eventually turn against slavery as well as many Northerners.
 
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