31- Dark Days in Time: the Haunting History of the German Cost Uprising pt 1

Join us today with Hatter starting us off with part one of the German Coast uprising in Louisiana. She dives straight into the treacherous minds of the field owners and what they'll do for a good profit and what pushes the workers to their limit resulting in the most brutal massacre revolutions in history

0:00 Intro: The sickening Louisiana sugar cane working conditions creating an uproar

11:03 Burning fields of the beginning of the Haiti revolution

16:05 The devastating mistreatment of the harvesters causing severe exhaustion

26:57 Armed with nearby weapons, the feared Louisiana resistance comes to fruition

35:56 Owners desperately warn neighboring fields as the revolt obtains more recruits

37:44 Part 1 cliffhanger: share your thoughts with us at investigatingwithus@gmail.com

39:18 Outro

Works Cited

Aptheker, Herbert. American Negro Slave Revolts. Columbia University Press, 1943.

Carter, Clarence Edwin, editor. The Territorial Papers of the United States, Volume IX: The Territory of Orleans, 1803–1812. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940.

Conrad, Glenn R., editor. The German Coast: Abstracts of the Civil Records of St. Charles and St. John the Baptist Parishes, 1804–1812. Center for Louisiana Studies, 1981.

Engerman, Stanley, Seymour Drescher, and Robert Paquette, editors. Slavery. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Follett, Richard. Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860. Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. Vintage Books, 1976.

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

Kolchin, Peter. American Slavery: 1619–1877. Hill and Wang, 1994.

Lowen, James W. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong. Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Rasmussen, Daniel. American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt. HarperCollins, 2011.

Rothman, Adam. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. Harvard University Press, 2005.

Shaw, John. “John Shaw to Paul Hamilton.” New Orleans, January 18, 1811. National Archives.

Smith, T. R. Southern Queen: New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomsbury Academic, 2011.

Thrasher, Albert, editor. On to New Orleans! Louisiana’s Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt. Cypress Press, 1996.

Primary Witness Accounts / Contemporary Sources

Andry, Manuel. “Dictionary of Louisiana Biography.” April 21, 2017. Includes Andry’s description:

“An attempt was made to assassinate me by the stroke of an axe…”

Hambleton, Samuel. “Samuel Hambleton to David Porter,” January 15, 1811. Library of Congress Papers of David Porter, reproduced in Slavery, edited by Engerman, Drescher, and Paquette, Oxford University Press, 2001.

Includes eyewitness description:

“They were brung up here for the sake of their Heads…”

Brown, James. Testimony concerning meetings between Quamana, Harry, and Charles Deslondes prior to the uprising. Referenced in tribunal and uprising records.

Perret, Charles. Militia account describing confrontation near Bernoudy plantation and estimated rebel strength.

Web Sources

1811 German Coast Uprising (Wikipedia)

Participant estimates, casualties, tribunals, executions, Hambleton quote, Andry account, Deslondes execution, commemorations.&nbs