If you travel 45 minutes West of New Orleans along the Mississippi River, you’ll run into the parishes (i.e., equivalent to counties) of St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and Jefferson. This location became the site of the largest slave insurrection against White slaveholders and the US government — the German Coast Uprising of 1811. […]
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