1.9: Conspiracy at Pointe Coupee
Jun 22, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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Episode description
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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