During a rainy evening on January 8, 1811, while plantation owners were consumed with preparations for Mardi Gras, more than 200 slaves attacked their owners and oppressors in an area north of New Orleans known as the German Coast, which the US had recently acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.
Dressed in stolen militia outfits and wielding muskets, blunderbusses, and cane knives, some of them astride horses, the slaves killed a local plantation owner, burned planters’ estates, and struck fear into the heart of the area’s white population, who were vastly outnumbered.
A few days later, the uprising, which was now 500 strong, was extinguished by a combination of armed planters, borrowed American soldiers, and seamen.
A few days later, the uprising, which was now 500 strong, was extinguished by a combination of armed planters, borrowed American soldiers, and seamen.
The rebels were severely punished after a series of horrifying show trials.
Decaying corpses and slaves’s heads on stakes permeated the air along the Mississippi River for some time afterward.
See Vanity Fair link below
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https://www.vanityfair.com/
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