Charles Deslondes, a free man of color from Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), led one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history in the Territory of Orleans (modern-day Louisiana). Beginning at the Andry Plantation, the uprising involved hundreds of enslaved people marching toward New Orleans with makeshift weapons, seeking freedom. Though ultimately suppressed by local militias and federal troops, the 1811 German Coast Uprising remains a powerful symbol of resistance and the struggle for liberation.
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