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Notable leaders. v. t. e. The 1811 German Coast uprising was a revolt of slaves in parts of the Territory of Orleans on January 8–10, 1811. The uprising occurred on the east bank of the Mississippi River in what is now St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana. [1]
Jan 8, 2016 · Two hundred and five years ago, on the night of January 8, 1811, more than 500 enslaved people took up arms in one of the largest slave rebellions in U.S. history.
The Louisiana Slave revolt of 1811 in the German Coast stands as a perfect example of history as simply the contest of, and reaction to, competing social forces. It was in the aftermath of the Haitian revolution that ended around 1803 and would undergird much of the many of America’s preceding slave revolts.
Whatever his origins, it is clear that in 1811, Charles Deslondes was the leader of the revolt known as the German Coast Uprising on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. On the evening of 8 January 1811, at the age of thirty-one, Deslondes led a band of rebels downriver on River Road.
Charles Deslondes ( c. 1789 – January 11, 1811) was an African American revolutionary who was one of the leaders in the 1811 German Coast uprising, a slave revolt that began on January 8, 1811, in the Territory of Orleans. He led more than 500 rebels against the plantations along the Mississippi River toward New Orleans.
Mar 12, 2007 · The slave rebellion begin on January 8, 1811, at the Andry plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish when approximately 15 slaves attack plantation owner Manual Andry, wounding him. Despite his wound, Andry escaped and warned whites on surrounding plantations.
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It was on the night of January 8, 1811, along Louisiana’s German Coast, he led the largest slave uprising in American history. 500 slaves joined Deslondes and his co-conspirators as they made their way past the plantations along the road to New Orleans. Deslondes was a slave that was born in St. Domingue in Haiti in 1789.
