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In January 1811, 500 slaves dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane kitchen knives, and axes rose up from the plantations around New Orleans and attempt to conquer the city. Ethnically diverse, politically astute, and highly arranged, this self-made military challenged not only the monetary system of plantation agriculture but also American extension. Their march symbolized the largest take action of armed resistance against slavery in the history of the United States. American Uprising is the riveting and long-neglected history of this intricate story, the rebel army's remarkable march on the city, and its stunning conclusion. No North American slave uprising - not Gabriel Prosser's, not Denmark Vesey's, not Nat Turner's - has rivaled the range of this rebellion either in conditions of the number of the slaves engaged or the quantity who were wiped out. More than 100 slaves were slaughtered by national troops and French planters, who then looked for to write the event out of history and prevent the spread of the slaves' revolutionary philosophy. With the Haitian revolution a recent memory space and the War of 1812 looming coming, the revolt got epic consequences for America. Through groundbreaking original research, Daniel Rasmussen offers a screen in to the young, expansionist country, illuminating the first history of New Orleans and providing new understanding into the path to the Civil War and the slave revolutionaries who fought and passed away for justice and the wish of freedom.
