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1739 Stono Rebellion 1741 New York Insurrection 1805 Chatham Manor 1800 Gabriel Prosser (Supressed) 1811 Charles Deslandes (Supressed) 1815 George Boxley (Supressed) 1816 Fort Blount Revolt 1822 Denmark Vesey (Supressed) 1831 Nat Turner's rebellion 1839 Amistad 1854 Pottawatomie Massacre 1859 John Brown A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves. ... The Stono Rebellion (sometimes called Catos Conspiracy or Catos Rebellion) is one of the earliest known organized acts of rebellion against slavery in the Americas. ... The New York Slave Insurrection was a slave revolt in the British colony of New York in 1741. ... Chatham Manor was the 1771 Georgian style home of William Fitzhugh overlooking the Rappahannock River. ... Gabriel (1776–October 10, 1800), today commonly if incorrectly known as Gabriel Prosser, was a slave born in Henrico County, Virginia who planned a failed slave rebellion in the summer of 1800. ... George Boxley was a white storekeeper living in Spotsylvania County, Virginia near the Orange County, Virginia line. ... Fort Blount Revolt is an unsuccessful slave revolt in Fort Blount, Apalachicola Bay, Florida on 1816. ... Denmark Vesey (originally Telemaque, 1767?-1822) was an African American slave and, later, a freeman, who is alleged to have planned what would have been a large slave rebellion had word of the plans not been leaked. ... Combatants Southern Slaves Southampton County Commanders Nat Turner Numerous Strength 50+ 15,000+ Casualties 200+ dead 57 dead Nat Turners slave rebellion was a slave rebellion that happened in Virginia in August 1831. ... Holding The “AFRICANS” are free, and are remanded to be released; Lt. ... The Pottawatomie massacre occurred during the night of May 24 to the morning of May 25, 1856. ... John Brown John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was the first white American abolitionist to advocate and to practice insurrection as a means to the abolition of slavery. ... This box: view • talk • edit

Charles Deslondes led an unsuccessful slave revolt in parts of the Louisiana Territory on January 8, 1811. The revolt took place in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana and St. James Parish, Louisiana. Deslonde and about 500 insurgent slaves marched down the Mississippi River Road toward New Orleans, killing two whites, burning plantations and crops, and capturing weapons and ammunition. The insurgents were halted at Destrehan, Louisiana just west of New Orleans by a Planter militia supported by United States troops. The United States in 1810, following the Louisiana Purchase. ... January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... St. ... St. ...

Sixty-six slaves were killed in the revolt. Deslonde and twenty other slaves were sentenced to death, shot, and decapitated, and their heads were placed on poles along the River Road as a warning to other potential rebel slaves.

The 1811 Louisiana slave revolt was the largest in U.S. History.

Further Reading

• Dormon, James H. “The Persistent Specter: Slave Rebellion in Territorial Louisiana.” Louisiana History 28 (Fall 1977): 389-404.
• Rodriguez, Junius P. “‘Always En Garde’: The Effects of Slave Insurrection upon the Louisiana Mentality.” Louisiana History 33 (Fall 1992): 399-416.
• Rodriguez, Junius P. “Rebellion on the River Road: The Ideology and Influence of Louisiana’s German Coast Slave Insurrection of 1811.” In McKivigan, John. R., and Harrold, Stanley. Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.
• Thompson, Thomas Marshall. “National Newspaper and Legislative Reactions to Louisiana’s Deslondes Slave Revolt of 1811.” Louisiana History 33 (Winter 1992): 5-29.
• Hine, Darlene Clark, William C. Hine, and Stanley Harrold. The African American Odyssey: Volume One: to 1877. Third Edition. Pearson Prentice Hall. 2006.