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Jan 8, 2016 · Image from the Destrehan Plantation's Facebook Page. 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 ...
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. White planters formed ...
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.
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.
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.
An exhibit of the 1811 slave revolt created by Lorraine Gendron is on display at Destrehan Plantation.) Charles was temporarily employed by nearby plantation owner Manuel Andry as a wagon driver, which enabled him to move about. He began recruiting slaves from Andry’s and other plantations along the German Coast to plan a revolt with the ...
Leon Waters stands next to the only historic marker that references the 1811 Slave Revolt. The principal organizer and leader of this revolt was a man named Charles, a laborer on the Deslonde plantation.
