Charles Deslondes
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Charles Deslondes led a slave revolt in parts of the Louisiana Territory on January 8, 1811. The revolt took place in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana and St. James Parish, Louisiana. Deslonde led about 500 insurgent slaves down the Mississippi River Road toward New Orleans. Along the way, they killed two whites, burned plantations and crops, and captured weapons and ammunition. The insurgents were halted at Destrehan, Louisiana just west of New Orleans by a planter militia supported by United States troops.
Sixty-six slaves were killed in the confrontation with the troops. Deslonde and twenty other slaves were captured, tried and sentenced to death. After they were shot and decapitated, their heads were placed on poles along the River Road as a warning to other potential rebels.
The 1811 Louisiana slave revolt was the largest in U.S. History.
[edit] Further reading
- Dormon, James H. “The Persistent Specter: Slave Rebellion in Territorial Louisiana.” Louisiana History 28 (Fall 1977): 389-404.
- Rodriguez, Junius P. “‘Always En Garde’: The Effects of Slave Insurrection upon the Louisiana Mentality.” Louisiana History 33 (Fall 1992): 399-416.
- Rodriguez, Junius P. “Rebellion on the River Road: The Ideology and Influence of Louisiana’s German Coast Slave Insurrection of 1811.” In McKivigan, John. R., and Harrold, Stanley. Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.
- Thompson, Thomas Marshall. “National Newspaper and Legislative Reactions to Louisiana’s Deslonde Slave Revolt of 1811.” Louisiana History 33 (Winter 1992): 5-29.
