32- Dark Days in Time: the Haunting History of the German Cost Uprising pt 2

Join Scoot and Hatter as they finish up and debunk the truth of the German Coast Uprising. Hatter takes us on a journey of the consequences the militia enforced to gain their control back from the scorched fields and more. Don't miss this conclusion of a revolution that history tried so desperately to sweep the suffering of the slaves under the rug

0:00 Intro: Uprising continues with field owners forming a militia against the rebels

05:45 Rigorously hunting down to capture the resistance enacting horrendous punishments

14:00 Death of the leader creating fearful warning to all other rebels with a revolting lasting reminder

26:26 Return to business as usual: the disturbing aftermath adding more security and control

34:23 Power and wealth dumbing down the truth of the scrutinous events that took place

39:41 What is your take? Email us at investigatingwithus@gmail.com & 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