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DESCRIPTION:American Uprising is the riveting account of the largest act of armed 
 resistance against slavery in the history of the United States—and one of 
 the defining moments in the history of New Orleans and the nation. In 
 January 1811, a group of around 500 enslaved men, dressed in military 
 uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes, rose up from the slave 
 plantations around New Orleans and set out to conquer the city. Ethnically 
 diverse, politically astute, and highly organized, this slave army 
 challenged not only the economic system of plantation agriculture but also 
 American expansion.\nNo North American slave revolt—not Gabriel Prosser, 
 not Denmark Vesey, not Nat Turner—has rivaled the scale of this rebellion 
 either in terms of the number of the slaves involved or in terms of the 
 number who were killed. Over 100 slaves were slaughtered by federal troops 
 and French planters, who then sought to write the event out of history and 
 prevent the spread of the slaves’ revolutionary philosophy. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/14/18750854.php
SUMMARY:Dan Rasmussen reads from American Uprising
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way,\nBerkeley, 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/02/14/18750854.php
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