Violinist and music teacher Jacques Constantin Deburque is born this year. He will go on to direct the orchestra at the Theatre de la Renaissance for the "free colored" in New Orleans, Louisiana.

In Philadelphia, free African Americans petition Congress to abolish slavery. The petition is defeated, and South Carolinian John Rutledge, Jr., comments that the request is one result of "this new fangled French philosophy of liberty and equality." The defeat does not stop the African American community from taking action to garner freedom, even 150 years later.

In an attempt to curb the foreign slave trade, the United States government passes a series of laws which harshly punish its citizens who voluntarily serve on slave traders.

Gabriel Prosser begins a slave uprising in Richmond, Virginia on this date. Prosser led one-thousand slaves in a revolt to take over and seize the state capital. On August 30, 1800, the slave revolt was totally suppressed and all of Prosser's followers were executed by hanging.

Approximately one thousand slaves, led by Gabriele Prosser, attempt an uprising in Richmond, Virginia. The rebellion is seamlessly planned, but two slaves expose the plot to the plantation owner. The Federal Militia is brought in and the uprising is put down almost as soon as it begins. The insurgents, including Prosser, are hanged.

Gabriel Prosser was hung on this date for leading a slave revolt near Richmond, Virginia.