Andry’s Rebellion, also known as the German Coast Uprising, was a slave revolt that occurred in the Territory of Louisiana between January 8th and 10th, 1811. The revolt, the largest servile uprising in United States history, was named after the owner of the plantation, Manual Andry, where the uprising originated. At its peak on January 10, it involved approximately 400 to 500 enslaved men and women along the east bank of the Mississippi River north of New Orleans. Led by a Saint-Domingue-(Haiti) born slave named Charles Deslondes, the uprising was inspired by the Haitian Revolution of 1791. Slaveholders also feared a Haitian-style uprising partly because blacks outnumbered whites in the region by a ratio of five to one, and in particular because of the large population of free blacks in the area that they assumed would help and support such a revolt.
The slave rebellion begin on January 8, 1811, at the Andry plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish when approximately 15 slaves attack plantation owner Manual Andry, wounding him. Despite his wound, Andry escaped and warned whites on surrounding plantations. Rebels also killed his son, Gilbert Tomassin Andry, around the same time.
The rebels then crossed into St. Charles Parish, headed to New Orleans and as they marched, their numbers grew. According to eye witness accounts at the time, the rebels marched in military style while beating drums, waving flags, and armed with pikes, hoes, axes with a few carrying firearms. Enslaved people from other plantations joined the Andry plantation rebels increasing their ranks to up to 500 people. While in St. Charles Parish they killed Jean Francois Trepangnier, another plantation owner. As the rebellion unfolded, terrified whites on plantations along the Mississippi River escaped for safety to New Orleans.
William C.C. Claiborne, the territorial governor at the time, called out the militia and imposed a curfew. General Wade Hampton, leader of the militia assembled two companies of volunteers, and eventually with the additional help of regular U.S. Army troops and Navy sailors, the rebellion was finally put down. Nearly 700 soldiers, more men than the number of rebels, broke the resistance on January 10. Rebel leader Charles Deslondes was captured the next day and brutally executed.
By the end of the uprising, the rebels had murdered two whites but more than ninety-five rebels were killed during the uprising and in the retaliation, making the suppression of this revolt the bloodiest in the history of the country. After the rebel slaves were captured, three tribunals were conducted by territorial officials at the Destrehan Plantation in St. John the Baptist Parish, and in Orleans Parish. On January 13, The Destrehan Plantation trial resulted in eighteen slaves being found guilty. All were later executed by firing squads and after their deaths, their severed heads were put pikes along the major roadway to New Orleans to intimidate other black slaves. After the rebellion authorities tightened the restrictions governing the activities of free blacks in Louisiana while freeing some loyal slaves who provided information or who, by serving in the militia, helped crush the uprising.
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Okay. Watching the nosferstu half in.the bag. I had a similar experience just hearing people eating and it bugging me to death but I changed seats to be further from people and it I’d quiet down after a bit. People finished their food and I think.also were gradually taken in. I went kn cheap night, which was stupid cause I forgot.the pics theatre is free now. It’s built into the basement of an almost dead mall and the screens are another story down from the lobby. They had no front desk workers and only digital ticket kiosks so I just checked the kiosk for the theatre number and walked on in. I was happy to pay, it was cheap night and I want Robert Eggers to get those returns stats but if they won’t even hire someone to verify tickets, I ain’t paying.
Why woman date fire extinguishers instead of nice match boy like me
if only id thought of the riiiiiiiight words. i couldve held onto your heart…
Fucking hell, the number of times I’ve had to update my applications for basic ass job that still don’t get back to me is killing my mood
I’ve no clue why these applications got exp datesBit idea: Geoguesser streamer who whenever “Israel” turns up they keep getting confused and keep saying that it doesn’t exist
it is january 9 and stalin saved the world from fascism
a third crush has reentered the picture who i cannot possibly justify morally (married). but jesus does our chemistry sizzle. what am i to do in mhy midsized midwestern city working at the social security administration, dealing w/ all these work crushes???
In the corner of our kitchen we keep a free chair with a blankie on it, it for our cats to join us as we eat otherwise they take our own chairs.
Hitler Particle-ass reaction to the laken riley act on
Would someone grade my take? It certainly could come across as that vulgar class analysis chuds do where they replace class analysis with braindead “liberal elitism” but that isn’t what I’m trying to do.
The take
It seems to me from looking at revolutionaries from Sankara to Lenin to Castro to Mao, if you actually care about people first and foremost you can’t honestly fuck things up more than they already are. When revolutionaries have gutted institutions and replaced just about everyone with “party loyalists (read: good people)” sometimes people who have little experience with the thing they’ve been put in charge of, it has generally been fine. You’re going to be better at whatever role you play than the most brilliant, “qualified”, soulless Ivy league degree holder.
This isn’t an anti-intellectual take, and it isn’t to be used as an excuse to get out of theory reading. Education absolutely amplifies your ability to do just about anything and you should get absolutely as much as you can, but so often you see people conveniently logic and philosophize themselves into a corner where nothing can possibly be done.
Example: Had they taken one American slave and make them the president they would have been a better one, even if they couldn’t read.
ck3 needs finding babies in the reeds of river deltas content for action-heroines who are too busy to make an heir manually.
The internet, it still has the juice, folks!
power’s out at my house so I’m stuck at my parents
I mean, “stuck” is relative here, they have a nice house and they’re libs but still good people
but damn do I have trouble sleeping here. I just can’t do it in their guest room, like at all. I’d get better sleep going outside and sleeping in the sidecar of my motorcycle.
power company says they’ll turn the grid around my house back on tomorrow, but if they don’t I’m gonna seriously consider a hotel.
I fucking hate resteraunts. Why is pricing inverted. Without fail the cheapest things to make are the most expensive on the menu. I am looking at spam mitsubi which ought to cost nothing and it is more expensive per unit than just about anything else. I am unreasonably mad
