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Charles Deslondes Revolt 1811

(AKA: New Orleans Slave Rebellion)

By: Sophie Chung

Class: APUSH

What happened at the Rebellion?

Significance of the Rebellion

Who is Charles Deslondes?

Event Background

- The largest slave uprising in American history.

- About 500 slaves gather (abt. 10-25% of local slave pop.)

However...

- The rebellion was not successful because;

- White refugees warned New Orleans militia of rebels coming.

- Better-armed whites easily crushed the revolt.

What was unique about Deslondes?

Why has this event been forgotten?

What happened to Deslondes?

One historian said that the white slave owners' refusal to acknowledge the revolt "laid the groundwork for one of the most significant moments of collective amnesia in American popular consciousness."

- Meaning: It began the idea of omitting the most SIGNIFICANT events in history & only remember the moral, traditional way of doing something.

Historian Samuel Hambleton describing Deslonde's death...

Bibliography

Deslondes' Strategies for Rebellion

Background Information:

Significance of the failure?

- The story of an well-organized and orderly slave rebellion does NOT flow well with the story that whites wish to sell.

- They want to tell stories that explain how crude and ignorant the slaves were, not how smart they were.

http://slaverebellion.org/index.php?page=newspaper-report-of-the-charles-deslonde-1811

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133684831/A-Tribute-To-Slave-Revolt-Leader-Charles-Deslonde

http://www.cracked.com/article_19076_5-important-people-who-were-screwed-out-history-books_p2.html

http://www.ushistoryscene.com/uncategorized/germancoastuprising/

http://voices.yahoo.com/the-1811-slave-revolt-led-charles-deslondes-8350313.html

During the rebellion, he was...

- Shot

- Mutilated

- Burned alive

- Died before he was caught to be arrested.

- Did not follow the traditional method:

- Nat Turner's style of helter-skelter slaughter.

- He was feared by slaves, but trusted by white plantation owners.

"Charles [Deslondes] had his hands chopped off then shot in one thigh & then the other, until they were both broken — then shot in the body and before he had expired was put into a bundle of straw and roasted!"

Instead of remembering the New Orleans Rebellion or Charles Deslondes...

Pictures

- Born in Saint Dominique, Haiti.

- A mulatto (of mixed race).

- Overseer of other slaves.

- Driver (job gave him level of authority).

- Age 31 (at the time of rebellion).

Q: Since he had more authority than other slaves, was Deslondes passive about slavery?

- Not at all; Deslondes loathed the enslavement of blacks.

When the word that the rebellion was a FAILURE, spread, the Louisiana newspapers downplayed the uprising.

- They wrote as if nothing happened

- Story was omitted altogether.

- Steal their master's:

- Weapons

- Militia uniforms

- Marching drums

- While marching to New Orleans...

- Destroy homes

- Terrorize slave owners

- Pick up more slaves

A Horrific Event

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/stlamerican.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/7a/17ace5b8-2f28-11e0-aac2-001cc4c002e0/4d49ef3f70c9d.preview-300.jpg

http://blackusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Charles-Deslondes.jpg

http://www.aaregistry.org/aareg_files/event_images/CharlesDeslondes.gif

There is a commemoration for the plantation, NOT the ACUTAL uprising that occurred at this location.

When did the rebellion occur?

Deslondes was executed on 15 January. His body was mutilated, dismembered, and put on public display as a warning against other attempts at slave uprising.

- Put on public display to spread fear to other slaves.

Where did the rebellion occur?

Causes/Effects?

As for cause, slave owners...

- Treated their slaves with violence to ensure fear.

- Made slaves inferior in mentality.

- Learning how to read/write = not allowed.

* This causes some brave slaves to defy their unfair masters.

- January 8, 1811 (Harvest Period)

- Rebellion occurred during harvest because...

- South give slaves more free time during Harvest.

- A period of relative autonomy for slaves.

- This = perfect opportunity for Deslondes to organize rebellion.

- Probably inspired by the Haitian Rebellion.

As for effect, slave owners...

- Were compensated $300 for every executed slave.

- Spread even more fear among slaves; told brutal stories of how Deslondes died.

At Louisiana's German Coast on River Road

(Began in Norco and continued through St. Charles and St. John the Baptist in Louisiana, approximately 40 mi. from the city of New Orleans).

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