Destrehan Plantation
Antebellum river-road manor where a wartime tribunal tried captured rebels of America's largest slave uprising.
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This guide to Destrehan Plantation in New Orleans centers on January 1811, when three enslaved men named Gros, Petit Lindor and Jasmin stood before a tribunal of five planters inside this very house. Days earlier, an enslaved overseer named Charles Deslondes had led the largest slave uprising in United States history, marching hundreds of people down the river road toward New Orleans before a militia cut it down. Owner Jean Noel Destrehan sat as one of the tribunal's judges over three days of testimony, questioning each captured man about his role. Walk the gallery where that court once sat, built by the same enslaved labor it was judging.
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