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Hundreds of enslaved Louisianans rise up against the sugar plantations. Led by Charles Deslondes, this army marches on New Orleans while the U.S. military is away.
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American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette
City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 by Jason Berry
"'A Horde of Brigands?' The Great Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811 Reconsidered" by Robert L. Paquette
"The Persistent Specter: Slave Rebellion in Territorial Louisiana" by James H. Dormon
"Historiographical Examinations of the 1811 Slave Insurrection" by Nathan A. Buman
"Commerce and Slavery in Lower Louisiana" in Slave Country by Adam Rothman
https://64parishes.org/entry/german-coast-slave-insurrection-of-1811
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