Charles Deslondes
American revolutionary
Charles Deslondes was an African American revolutionary who was one of the leaders in the 1811 German Coast uprising, a slave revolt that began on January 8, 1811, in the Territory of Orleans. He led more than 500 rebels against the plantations... Wikipedia
Born: Haiti
Died: January 11, 1811
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Charles Deslondes ( c. 1789 – January 11, 1811) was an African American revolutionary who was one of the leaders in the 1811 German Coast uprising, ...
Feb 11, 2011 · Deslondes was, ostensibly, a loyal slave-driver ... a slave who also oversaw his brutal master's vast plantation. Deslondes was feared by slaves ...
Charles Deslondes was the leader of the revolt known as the German Coast Uprising on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in 1811.
Beginning on Jan. 8, 1811 at Col. Manuel Andry's plantation in present-day LaPlace, over 200 enslaved African Americans led by Charles Deslondes marched down ...
Jan 8, 2016 · There, a slave driver named Charles Deslondes of Haitian decscent, led a small band of slaves into the mansion of the plantation owners ...
He was one of the slave leaders of the 1811 German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt that began on January 8, 1811, in the Territory of Orleans. He led more than ...
Jan 22, 2024 · On the night of Jan. 8, 1811, Charles Deslondes led the largest known uprising of enslaved people in American history.
Jan 10, 2011 · Neither a free person of color nor of Haitian origin, Charles Deslondes was a mixed-race slave driver, most likely born in Spanish Louisiana, ...
During this revolt about 500 enslaved Africans, armed with pikes, hoes, axes and a few firearms, marched on the city of New Orleans with flags flying and drums ...
Charles Deslondes - Enslaved on Deslondes Plantation, St. John the Baptist Parish. Learn More. Gilbert - Enslaved by Manuel Andry, St. John the Baptist Parish.