Destrehan Plantation (1811 Slave Revolt)

One of the men who sat in judgment here was the owner. Jean-Noel Destrehan, born in 1759, had financed Etienne de Bore's 1794 experiments in granulating sugar, the breakthrough that made sugar Louisiana's great crop. In January 1811 he sat on the tribunal that tried captured insurgents. Counts differ: one reckoning has about 75 facing tribunals in all, while more than 100 insurgents died overall. Charles Deslondes never faced a court. White residents took him from custody and killed him.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — steps away
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 17 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 18 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• Congo Square — 18 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.

More markers nearby

• Destrehan Manor House — steps away
• George Prince Ferry Memorial — 0.4 mi
• Hale Boggs Bridge — 0.4 mi
• Ormond Plantation — 0.8 mi