Pitot House
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The Pitot House is a historic landmark in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The James Pitot House
1811 German Coast uprising
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The 1811 German Coast uprising was a slave rebellion which occurred in the Territory of Orleans on January 8–10, 1811. It occurred on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the modern-day Louisiana
Pitot House
…of the "bayou bridge" which Governor Claiborne ordered the military "to permit no Negroes to pass or repass the same" during the events known as the 1811 German Coast Uprising. This event, said by some historians to be the largest slave uprising on American soil (a theory not recognized by all) caused white families living…
1811 German Coast Uprising
The uprising began here at the Andry Plantation House, now the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House, in LaPlace, Louisiana
1809 portrait of Hampton by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Destrehan Plantation House, Louisiana