Untold story of U.S. slave rebellion retold centuries later

DESTREHAN PLANTATION, LA.—A long-lost chapter in American history is being written anew today, as southerners begin to come to terms with the previously untold story of the continent’s largest slave revolt.

And while historians today debate the details, a consensus is forming around just how close New Orleans came to becoming a free black colony precisely 200 years ago when a makeshift army of some 500 slaves, some just a few years out of Africa, rose up in carefully calculated unison with epic consequences.

Here at the pastoral Destrehan Plantation, the aftermath of the January 1811, insurrection was especially brutal — newly unearthed colonial records show the estate was the epicentre for a judicial reckoning, with the white slaveholders ordering as many as 100 ringleaders shot or hanged.

They black rebel leaders then were decapitated, with their heads mounted on stakes in a horrific necklace of retribution stretching 70 kms down the Mississippi, all the way to the gates of what was then America’s most crucial frontier city.“It is one of the most striking moments of amnesia in our national history. What you had in the end were plantation owners sitting down to sumptuous five-course meals as they looked out the window at their own beheaded slaves,” said historian Daniel Rasmussen, who began his investigation as an undergraduate student at Harvard.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/926867--untold-story-of-u-s-slave-rebellion-retold-centuries-later?bn=1

Doesn't it have to be 'told' to be 'retold' and if it was 'told', how do you 'untold' it?

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okay, now I'll read the article.

Um.

And Heckava Job Brownie was more white retribution? And Haiti was also a key point...

The French planters have a lot to answer for. Brutality here and in Haiti, ongoing in Haiti. And here?


When will they ever learn...

especially their spiritual elements

thanks for the article. I have been reading Howard Zinn's A People's History and I have been amazed by all the slave revolts and attempts to free people in slavery.

Also the horrific actions by non-slaves. Both people who owned the slaves, and non-slave holding whites.

It is incredible stories of great bravery and ingenuity by those in slavery and at times those who tried to help.

"On To New Orleans" by Al Thrasher for more info about the 1811 revolt.

http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/slaverevolt.html

I met Al Thrasher while he was researching at the NOLA library.