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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hello Again. It's Eaves and you're listening to

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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class, a podcast that truly believes

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Speaker 1: no day is boring. Today is January eighth. The day

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Speaker 1: was January eighth, eighteen eleven. One of the largest slave

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Speaker 1: revolts in US history, known as the German Coast Uprising,

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Speaker 1: began in the territory of Orleans for present day Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: The German Coast was a region in Louisiana named after

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Speaker 1: the large number of German immigrants who moved there beginning

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Speaker 1: in the eighteenth century. The land acquired in the Louisiana

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Speaker 1: Purchase in eighteen o three included the Territory of Orleans,

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Speaker 1: which itself included much of the present day state of Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't note here that the Louisiana Purchase was not

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Speaker 1: simply a purchase of land. The US actually paid France

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Speaker 1: for the imperial rights to land that was largely still

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Speaker 1: owned and occupied by Native Americans. Anyway, Sugar cane production

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Speaker 1: was a major industry on the German Coast. There was

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Speaker 1: a large number of enslaved Africans and African Americans and

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Speaker 1: there were also many free people of color in Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: At the time of the Louisiana Purchase, around one in

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Speaker 1: six people in New Orleans was a free person of color,

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Speaker 1: and free people of color in Louisiana were afforded a

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Speaker 1: relatively high level of acceptance and prosperity compared to the

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Speaker 1: conditions free black people lived under in other places in

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Speaker 1: the US. At the same time, the Haitian Revolution, which

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Speaker 1: ended in eighteen o four with Haitian independence from France,

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Speaker 1: resulted in an influx of Haitian migrants. Fears of flavor

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Speaker 1: rebellion were already high among Louisiana's white population, but the

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Speaker 1: arrival of more free people of color and the spread

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Speaker 1: revolutionary ideas via the French and Haitian revolutions heightened tention

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Speaker 1: and maroons, or people who escaped slavery, still lived in

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Speaker 1: communities around New Orleans and other places in Louisiana. As

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Speaker 1: it turns out, some people were inspired enough by the

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Speaker 1: Haitian Revolution to take action. An enslaved man named Charles

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Speaker 1: de Lawn was a slave driver on a plantation owned

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Speaker 1: by Manuel Andre near New Orleans. In Saint John, the

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Speaker 1: Baptist parish around harvest time, when enslaved people were given

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Speaker 1: more free time, he organized other people enslaved on the

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Speaker 1: plantation and Maroons to plan and uprising. On January eighteen eleven,

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Speaker 1: the rebels wounded Andre and killed his son Gilbert. Gathering

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Speaker 1: muskets and ammunition at the plantation and putting on militia uniforms,

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Speaker 1: the group marched down river on River Road toward New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: Along the way, they gathered people for other plantations. They

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Speaker 1: planned to destroy sugarcane plantations, to free enslaved people in Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: and to establish a black state along the Mississippi River.

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Speaker 1: The uprising was growing quickly, with somewhere between two hundred

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Speaker 1: and five hundred people joining the cause, though the exact

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Speaker 1: number is unclear. Many plantation owners fled at the conflict,

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Speaker 1: escaping to New Orleans. Others rounded up their own militia.

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Speaker 1: The governor of the Territory of Orleans, William C. C claiborne,

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Speaker 1: sent troops and militia to suppress the uprising, Though the

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Speaker 1: rebels fought against the local militias with clubs, knives, guns

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Speaker 1: and other weapons, and some were on horseback. The uprising

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Speaker 1: was brutally quelled by January ten. Many of the leaders

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Speaker 1: of the uprising, including the Lawn, were captured and killed.

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Speaker 1: Childs were soon held for people who have been captured,

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Speaker 1: resulting in the execution of more enslaved people. The heads

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Speaker 1: of some of the execute people were displayed on pikes.

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Speaker 1: Other gruesome public displays of bodies were put up as

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Speaker 1: an attempt to deter others from attempting and uprising. Nearly

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Speaker 1: one enslaved people died in the uprising and subsequent executions.

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Speaker 1: After the rebellion, free people of color in Louisiana faced

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Speaker 1: more restrictions, like being required to observe curfews and have

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Speaker 1: their racial status designated in public records. I'm each jeffco

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