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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. They carried cane knives (used ...
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.
At 4:00 a.m. Saturday, January 12, 1811, in the swamps behind the Picou and Trouard Plantations, Charles was captured and brutally killed by detachments led by Deslondes, his owner, and Picou. Judge Pierre Bauchet St. Martin appointed Jean Noel, one of three tribunals.
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.
Feb 8, 2017 · The slave revolt known as the 1811 German Coast Uprising, as depicted in this painting, began on Jan. 8, 1811, at the Andry plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Woodland ...
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.
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]
