Slave Revolt

The column reached St. Charles Parish after a night of storm, with recruits joining along the way. On the morning of January 10, 1811, planter Manuel Andry's militia, which had crossed the river without Gen. Wade Hampton's knowledge, charged the camp at Bernoudi's plantation. Mounted lines, free men of color among them, broke the rebels, and Andry reported a great slaughter. Eyewitnesses put the rebel force anywhere from 150 to 500, and close to a hundred died in the fighting and in executions soon after. Hampton's regulars were the first federal troops used against an uprising of the enslaved.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 4.7 mi
  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.
• Whitney Plantation — 14 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 20 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 — 21 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.

More markers nearby

• Trepagnier Plantation — steps away
• Thomas J. Sellers — steps away
• Prospect Plantation (1815-1920) — steps away
• More Gather to Fight For Freedom — 0.9 mi