• 1.9: Conspiracy at Pointe Coupee

  • Jun 22 2024
  • Length: 33 mins
  • Podcast

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1.9: Conspiracy at Pointe Coupee

  • Summary

  • In 1791 and 1795, enslaved people plot to overthrow Louisiana's plantation system.


    READ MORE:

    The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

    The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

    Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

    "The Pointe Coupee Conspiracy of 1791" by Ulysses S. Ricard, Jr.

    "The 1795 Slave Conspiracy in Pointe Coupee: Impact of the French Revolution" by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

    "The Abortive Slave Revolt at Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, 1795" by Jack D. L. Holmes


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