On this day in 1800, rebel leader, Gabriel Prosser, is forced to postpone a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, because of rain.

Listen to the newspaper article from when he was pardoned centuries later in 2007.

Today is August 30, 2020.

This is the Librarian’s Almanac.

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