A gripping and deeply revealing history of an infamous slave
rebellion that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed the course of
American history
In January 1811, five hundred slaves, dressed in military
uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes, rose up from
the plantations around New Orleans and set out to conquer the city.
Ethnically diverse, politically astute, and highly organized, this
self-made army challenged not only the economic system of
plantation agriculture but also American expansion. Their march
represented the largest act of armed resistance against slavery in
the history of the United States.
American Uprising is the riveting and long-neglected story of
this elaborate plot, the rebel army's dramatic march on the city,
and its shocking conclusion. No North American slave uprising--not
Gabriel Prosser's, not Denmark Vesey's, not Nat Turner's--has
rivaled the scale of this rebellion either in terms of the number
of the slaves involved or the number who were killed. More than one
hundred slaves were slaughtered by federal troops and French
planters, who then sought to write the event out of history and
prevent the spread of the slaves' revolutionary philosophy. With
the Haitian revolution a recent memory and the War of 1812 looming
on the horizon, the revolt had epic consequences for America.
Through groundbreaking original research, Daniel Rasmussen
offers a window into the young, expansionist country, illuminating
the early history of New Orleans and providing new insight into the
path to the Civil War and the slave revolutionaries who fought and
died for justice and the hope of freedom.
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