Pointe Coupée Slave Conspiracy of 1795
The Pointe Coupée Slave Conspiracy of 1795 was an attempted slave rebellion which took place in Spanish Louisiana in 1795. It has attracted a lot of attention and been the subject of much historical research. [1] It was preceded by the Pointe Coupée Slave Conspiracy of 1791.
On May 4, 1795, 57 slaves and three local white men were put on trial in Point Coupee after an attempted slave insurrection at the plantation of Julien de Lallande Poydras. Planters discovered Theorie de l'impot, a book which included the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 in one cabin.[2] The trial ended with 23 slaves being hanged (and their decapitated heads posted along the road) and 31 slaves sentenced to flogging and hard labor. All three white men were deported with two sentenced to six years forced labor in Havana.[3]
See also[]
- History of slavery in Louisiana
- Pointe Coupée Conspiracy
References[]
- ^ Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. “The 1795 Slave Conspiracy in Pointe Coupée: Impact of the French Revolution.” Proceedings of the Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, vol. 15, Michigan State University Press, 1992, pp. 130–41, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42952224.
- ^ Daniel Rasmussen, American Uprising: the untold story of America's largest slave revolt (Harper Collins 2011), p. 89
- ^ Midlo Hall, Gwendolyn (1992). Africans in Colonial Louisiana. Louisiana State University Press. p. 344. ISBN 9780807116869.
- 1795 in North America
- 18th century in Louisiana
- Slave rebellions in North America
- History of slavery in Louisiana
- Conflicts in 1795