History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1686 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The 1811 Louisiana Rising
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The idea
In January eighteen eleven, in Louisiana's sugar parishes, perhaps five hundred enslaved people took up arms under Charles Deslondes, a mixed-race slave driver.
In practice
A rising inspired by Haiti, killing Andry's son, burning three plantations and marching toward New Orleans.
Where people slip
Deslondes was mutilated and burned. Other rebels were beheaded and their heads placed on pikes along the Mississippi.
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