Jan 13, The Destrehan Plantation trial resulted in 18 slaves being found guilty. They executed by firing squads & their deaths, their severed heads were put pikes along the major roadway to New Orleans to intimidate other Black slaves. SOURCE: Black Past, Samuel Momodu
#GermanCoastUprising
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...making the suppression of this revolt the bloodiest in the history of the country. After the rebel slaves were captured, 3 tribunals were conducted by territorial officials at the Destrehan Plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish, and in Orleans Parish.
#GermanCoastUprising
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On Jan 10, at Jacques Fortier’s plantation, near what is now River Town in Kenner, nearly 700 soldiers broke the resistance. By the end of the uprising, the rebels had murdered 2 whites, but more than 95 rebels were killed during the uprising & in the retaliation...
#GermanCoastUprising
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After attacking the mansion, they started a two-day march down River Road to New Orleans. SOURCE: Maris Fessenden for Smithsonian Magazine
Along the way their ranks swelled to approximately 400 to 500 enslaved men & women as they burned other plantations.
#GermanCoastUprising
#AmericanHistory
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Facts: Africans & African descendants outnumbered whites in the region by a ratio of 5 to 1. The plan was to establish a Black state on the banks of the Mississippi. SOURCE: Black Past, Samuel Momodu
#GermanCoastUprising
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#OTD in #History 1811
Jan 08 - 10: #GermanCoastUprising (aka Andry’s Rebellion)
Context: More than 500 enslaved people on the east side of the Mississippi, in a region called the German Coast of Louisiana, took up arms in one of the largest slave rebellions in #AmericanHistory.
#WhiteSupremacy
1/7
Likely the biggest such uprising in US history, the #GermanCoastUprising began in Louisiana on #ThisDayInHistory in 1811. Over 200 of the enslaved, with improvised weapons & led by #CharlesDeslondes, burned plantations & marched for the coast. Its suppression was savagely brutal.
Jan 10th 1811: The #GermanCoastUprising of enslaved people in Louisiana ended. White militias killed almost 40 men without trials. White planters and officials interrogated, tried, executed and decapitated an additional 44 men who had been captured, putting their heads on pikes to intimidate others
Jan 13, The Destrehan Plantation trial resulted in 18 slaves being found guilty. They executed by firing squads & their deaths, their severed heads were put pikes along the major roadway to New Orleans to intimidate other Black slaves. SOURCE: Black Past, Samuel Momodu
#GermanCoastUprising
7/7
...making the suppression of this revolt the bloodiest in the history of the country. After the rebel slaves were captured, 3 tribunals were conducted by territorial officials at the Destrehan Plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish, and in Orleans Parish.
#GermanCoastUprising
6/7
On Jan 10, at Jacques Fortier’s plantation, near what is now River Town in Kenner, nearly 700 soldiers broke the resistance. By the end of the uprising, the rebels had murdered 2 whites, but more than 95 rebels were killed during the uprising & in the retaliation...
#GermanCoastUprising
5/7
After attacking the mansion, they started a two-day march down River Road to New Orleans. SOURCE: Maris Fessenden for Smithsonian Magazine
Along the way their ranks swelled to approximately 400 to 500 enslaved men & women as they burned other plantations.
#GermanCoastUprising
#AmericanHistory
4/7
Facts: Africans & African descendants outnumbered whites in the region by a ratio of 5 to 1. The plan was to establish a Black state on the banks of the Mississippi. SOURCE: Black Past, Samuel Momodu
#GermanCoastUprising
#AmericanHistory
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
2/7
#OTD in #History 1811
Jan 08 - 10: #GermanCoastUprising (aka Andry’s Rebellion)
Context: More than 500 enslaved people on the east side of the Mississippi, in a region called the German Coast of Louisiana, took up arms in one of the largest slave rebellions in #AmericanHistory.
#WhiteSupremacy
1/7
#OTD #January8 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #BlackHistory #CharlesDeslones #GermanCoastUprising #NewOrleans 1811, #AfricanNationalCongress 1912, #Alabama #NationalGuard-smen indicted 1964, #MuhammadAli #IreneMorganKirkalday Presidential Citizens Medal 2001 woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/01/08/j...
