1.9: Conspiracy at Pointe Coupee

In 1791 and 1795, enslaved people plot to overthrow Louisiana's plantation system.

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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette

Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

"The Pointe Coupee Conspiracy of 1791" by Ulysses S. Ricard, Jr.

"The 1795 Slave Conspiracy in Pointe Coupee: Impact of the French Revolution" by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

"The Abortive Slave Revolt at Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, 1795" by Jack D. L. Holmes

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