Slave Rebellion: The Gabriel Prosser Revolt Of 1800

A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves. Slave rebellions have happened in nearly all cultures that practice slavery and are amongst the most feared events for slaveholders. Slave revolts in the late 1700 period were more opinionated in their orientation, and enormous revolts were planned around key political issues, for example the Gabriel Prosser Revolt of 1800. One of the more interesting characteristics of the slave revolts in the later period was that the leaders uncovered detailed plans for the release of slaves, using religion as the source for liberation. (Harrison,2004) In 1795, the same year that Benjamin Banneker created the almanac; a number of slaves were held captive at Pointe Coupe for planning to rise and killed their slave master and also any slaves that did not want to participate in the slave rebellion.
The Pointe Coupee Conspiracy, an abortive slave revolt, created such a legacy of paranoia that it was sometimes called an uprising in early histories of Louisiana. Colonial economic troubles had caused reductions in already insufficient food, and masters, cut off from each other on plantations expanded along the river, were drastically outnumbered by their slaves. The district's population included approximately 2,000 whites

Poydras, a well-known Louisiana literary figure, was considered one of the most caring planters in his treatment of slaves. The slaves planned to steal guns and ammunition form Poydras's store and then set fire to a building on the estate. The slaves hoped that the master’s from neighboring estates would come to help put out the fire, and when they arrived, they would be killed. Slaves would then march on other estates, killing both the masters and those slaves who refused to participate in the rebellion. Although the rebels thought they had worked out a great plan, it didn’t quite get a chance to be