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The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
HarperCollins
January 2011
On Sale: January 4, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 0061995215
EAN: 9780061995217
Hardcover
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A gripping and deeply revealing history of an infamous
slave rebellion that nearly toppled New Orleans and changed
the course of American history In January 1811, five hundred slaves, dressed in military
uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes, rose up
from the plantations around New Orleans and set out to
conquer the city. Ethnically diverse, politically astute,
and highly organized, this self-made army challenged not
only the economic system of plantation agriculture but also
American expansion. Their march represented the largest act
of armed resistance against slavery in the history of the
United States. American Uprising is the riveting and long-neglected story
of this elaborate plot, the rebel army's dramatic march on
the city, and its shocking conclusion. No North American
slave uprising—not Gabriel Prosser's, not Denmark Vesey's,
not Nat Turner's—has rivaled the scale of this rebellion
either in terms of the number of the slaves involved or the
number who were killed. More than one hundred slaves were
slaughtered by federal troops and French planters, who then
sought to write the event out of history and prevent the
spread of the slaves' revolutionary philosophy. With the
Haitian revolution a recent memory and the War of 1812
looming on the horizon, the revolt had epic consequences for
America. Through groundbreaking original research, Daniel Rasmussen
offers a window into the young, expansionist country,
illuminating the early history of New Orleans and providing
new insight into the path to the Civil War and the slave
revolutionaries who fought and died for justice and the hope
of freedom.
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