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Forgotten America

Summary

The largest slave rebellion in US history broke out in 1811. Spend the course's penultimate lecture unpacking the violent struggle between the enslaved and their enslavers on Louisiana's notoriously brutal sugar plantations. What triggered the rebellion? What was its goal? And what did its extreme violence suggest about slave uprisings in America more broadly?

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