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Ok, NOW I've seen it. Wow.

"Gabriel: The True Story You Have Never Been Told" I can be equal parts really critical and utterly won over when I go see a live performance. But last night, I just felt a certain sense of relief. "Gabriel" was powerful, people, it was. I hope you can see it and I would love to know how it worked for you. We sobbed. Lost, Buried & Forgotten Why Lord, Why do you Tarry? Stoke the Fire Death Or Liberty The title is a little more hyperbolic than I am completely comfortable with, but when visitors are learning this historical chapter in Black African and American history for the first time, the sentiment is genuine. And so many who have attended did not know much beyond the words "Gabriel's Rebellion."  And, sigh, still call him "Gabriel Prosser." But have we never been told?  It's not a bad way to frame it on the one hand. We do have to be told, to be taught, to have the history passed to us. But we're not always interested, are we...

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