American Uprising (24 page)
Authors: Daniel Rasmussen
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abolitionists, 178
Abraham (slave), 124
Adams, Henry, 59
Adams-Onis Treaty, 184, 185
Africa
chanting in, 42
embrenche (ritual scar) of, 25
military oaths in, 36
slaves from, 17–18, 20, 25, 40–41, 53, 90 (
see also
specific countries
)
African Americans
and Bureau of Colored Troops, 195
and civil rights movement, 214–17
Congressional Medals of Honor awarded to, 195
and constitutional amendments, 198
courage of, 195–96, 198
legally free, 197, 198
lynchings of, 216
in Reconstruction period, 205
and segregation, 211–15
violence against, 216
volunteers to U.S. Army, 190–98
Afro-American History Society, 201–2
Akan people, 22, 23
blood markings of, 86, 106
Cuban revolt of, 35
and guerilla warfare, 90
in New Orleans revolt, 106–7
New York revolt of, 36
See also
Asante kingdom
Alabama National Guard, 214
Amar (slave), 156, 240n15
American expansionism
and Civil War, 186
and Claiborne, 68, 169
driven by fear, 176
in Florida (
see
Florida)
in history, 210
and Indian Removal, 184–85
and Madison, 63, 186
in Texas, 185
and war with Mexico, 185, 186
Americanization
costs of, 163
of Louisiana, 54–56, 159, 167
American Revolution, 53, 54
Andry, Gilbert, 98, 99, 100, 110, 128, 135, 136
Andry, Manuel, 71–81
and counterattack, 137, 140
Deslondes as slave driver for, 74–81
Deslondes’ attack on, 85, 99
escape of, 99–100, 131, 135, 136
help sought by, 135–36
mansion of, 71–72, 99–101, 135–36
and reprisals, 149, 153, 157, 206
slave attack on, 98–100
and slave trial, 153
slave uprising plotted at plantation of, 86, 127
Aponte Rebellion, Cuba, 98
Aptheker, Herbert,
American Negro Slave Revolts
, 208–9
Articles of Confederation, C.S.A., 188
Asante kingdom
heritage of, 106–7
slaves from, 20, 22, 106
Augustin (slave), 124, 234n126
Baptiste (slave), 240n15
Barry, John M.,
Rising Tide
, 9
Baton Rouge, takeover of, 65–68, 70
Bay of Pigs, Cuba, 215
Bayou Teche plantation, 193
Bazile (slave), 126–27
Bébé (dancing master), 14
Bernoudy, Bernard, 107, 108
Bernoudy plantation, 108, 124, 130, 137, 151
Bight of Benin, slaves from, 23
Bight of Biafra, slaves from, 23
Black Mother, 229n80
Black Power, 215, 216
Black Workers Congress, 201
Bois-Caiman, Haiti, revolt in, 43
Bonaparte, Joseph, 62
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 44, 46, 51–52
Bonnie Blue Flag, 66
Boukman (slave), 43
Britain
and Prospect Bluff fort, 182–83
and slave revolt threats, 172
treason in, 239n149
and War of 1812, 179–82
Brown, James
at Claiborne meeting, 168
Deslondes’ visits to, 83
Kook and Quamana purchased by, 33
plantation of, 32, 86–87, 105–6, 108
and slave meetings, 86–87
as U.S. senator, 178
Brown v. Board of Education
, 211
Bureau of Colored Troops, 195
Burr, Aaron, 67
Butler, Benjamin, 190, 191, 192
Butler and McCutcheon plantation, 124
Caribbean Sea, map, 5
Carnival (1811), 11
crowning of the leader in, 21
and King and Queen of the Twelfth Cakes, 13
and King’s Ball, 13
Carolina
, 23
Carter, Harvey, 120
Cesar (slave), 158
Charbonnet estate, 156
Charles (slave of Kenner and Henderson plantation), 127
Charleston, South Carolina, slave trade in, 24, 30
Chelemagne (slave), 125
Choctaw Indians, 237n141
Christien, Madame, 158
civil rights movement, 214–17
Civil War, U.S.
at Bull Run, 188
and expansionism, 186
and secession, 188
and slavery, 197–98
and slave volunteers to Union army, 190–98
and U.S. Navy on Mississippi River, 188–90
Claiborne, Eliza, 59–60
Claiborne, Nathaniel, 59
Claiborne, William C. C., 52–60
American culture glorified by, 54, 159, 170, 185–86, 206
and American expansionism, 68, 169
on criminality, 159–61, 206
early years of, 53–54
federal militia called by, 142, 169
government control promoted by, 162–63
as governor of Louisiana, 52–53, 55–56, 59, 60, 162
history written by, 68, 204, 206, 207
and Louisiana statehood, 177–79
martial law declared by, 170–73
and New Orleans defense, 120–21, 142
New Orleans lockdown ordered by, 117–19
newspaper attacks on, 59–60
official reports from, 120, 159, 161, 162
opponents of, 56–60
on planter violence, 205
reforms introduced by, 174–76
speech by, 168–71
and state constitution, 177
and U.S. Congress, 162, 178
and West Florida, 61, 62–64, 66–68, 183
Clapion, Madame, 141
Coffy (maroon), 125
Cole, James “Catfish,” 212, 213
Communist movement, 204, 208–9
Confederate States of America (C.S.A.), 188, 192
Congressional Medal of Honor, 195
Conrad, Joseph, 147
Constitution, U.S.
civil rights amendments to, 198
on domestic insurrections, 173
Second Amendment to, 170
Creek Indians, 184
Creoles, 55, 56, 88, 90, 200
Croaker (slave), 127
Cuba
Bay of Pigs in, 215
slave revolt in, 35, 98
and West Florida, 67
Cupidon (slave), 153–54, 155
Dagobert (slave), 154, 155, 234n126, 240n15
Dahomey, kingdom of, 22
Daniel (slave), 124, 158
d’Arensbourg family, 136
d’Arensbourg plantation, 88
Dawson (slave), 124
Declaration of Independence, U.S., 172
Declaration of the Rights of Man (French Revolution), 89
Deep South
civil rights movement in, 214–15
economic boom of, 178–79
Ku Klux Klan in, 212–13
Reconstruction in, 205
segregation in, 211–15
Deep South (
cont
.)
white supremacy in, 169, 204, 205, 206–7, 212
Delery family, 136
Deslondes, Charles
communication network of, 83, 85
death of, 142, 187
denounced in slave trial, 154
fleeing into the swamps, 140, 141
paternity of, 84
revolt plotted by, 85, 86, 90-91, 154, 181, 240n15
revolt started by, 97–103, 110
and slave army, 97–103, 110, 126, 130, 135, 216
as slave driver, 74–81, 85
and Trépagnier estate, 80–81, 83
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 45–46
Destrehan, Jean Noël
and Claiborne as governor, 56
Claiborne’s report to, 159–60
education of, 14
on Epiphany Sunday (1811), 11–14
lifestyle of, 15, 16
mansion of, 14, 125
marriage of, 14
opposition to Claiborne, 57–59
as president of legislative council, 168
production system pioneered by, 76–77
and slavery, 17–18, 78
and state militia, 171
staying to fight, 121
as sugar planter, 14–15, 16–17, 48
as U.S. senator, 178
wealth of, 16, 18
Destrehan de Beaupré, Jean Baptiste Honoré, 14
Destrehan plantation
modern-day tours of, 200–201
slave cabin of, 200
slave revolt at, 110–11
slaves imprisoned at, 140, 151–52
slave trials in, 152–57
Diligent
, 29–30
Dominique (slave), 107-8, 232n108
Dorvin family, 136
Douglass, Frederick, 192
Dred Scott
case, 197
Elisha (slave driver), 127
Emancipation Proclamation, 191, 192–95, 216
Ephraim (slave), 124
Epiphany Sunday (1811), 11–14, 20
Equiano, Olaudah, 25–28
African life of, 25–27
capture of, 27–28
Étienne (slave), 156, 158
Eugene (slave), 155, 240n15
Fanti dialect, 22
farmers, definitions of, 186
Farragut, David, 188–90
First Louisiana Native Guard, 196
Florida
and Adams-Onis Treaty, 184
free blacks and runaway slaves in, 62, 63
Native Americans in, 62, 183
Prospect Bluff fort in, 182–83, 186
Spanish territory of, 61–63, 182, 183
U.S. conquest of, 183, 184
(
see also
West Florida)
Fortier, Adelard, 105
Fortier, Cadet, 127
Fortier plantation, 128–31
Fort Jackson, 188–90
Fort St. Philip, 188–90
France
conquest of Spain by, 62, 63
Haiti as colony of, 39–40, 44
Louisiana Territory sold by, 51–52
Napoleon’s army in, 44–45
revolutionary influences from, 89–90
and slave revolt in Haiti, 44–45
slavery abolished by, 89
François (slave), 104–5, 125
Free-Soilers, 178
French Revolution, 89, 90, 102
Gallifet plantation, 41
Garrett (slave), 124
Garvey, Marcus, 216
Gayarré, Charles, 205–6, 207
German Coast of Louisiana, 10–11
decapitated heads on display in, 148–49, 169
map,
95
modern-day tours of, 200–201
plantations of, 32, 72–73
Red Church in, 11, 110, 125
slave revolt in (
see
January 8–29 dates; slave army)
slaves socializing in, 34
slave system in, 17, 18
Gilbert (slave), 158
Gold Coast, slaves from, 23
Grand Pré, Louis de, 65–66
Greeley, Horace, 197
Griffe, Pierre, 142
Guiam (slave), 127