Said it was that pakistan would never start a war. We meet with news makers and tweet about the stories that matter is their own. Freedom or that that was the rallying cry of the largest slave rebellion in the u. S. More than 200 years ago this week hundreds of people brought it back to life during a powerful reenactment. And here in the street join us on twitter or in our live chat to talk about the Lessons Learned from the resistance. In 1811 some 500 slaves march for 2 days in an effort to take over new orleans and declare a Free Republic their attempt was reenacted this week by participants dressed in period costumes armed with weapons they beat drums and chanted for their rights as they walked past the Oil Refineries and trailer parks that replaced the sugar plantations of the 19th century the event was the brainchild of performance artist dred scott who came up with an alternate ending to the march a celebration instead of a massacre he briefly spoke to the stream about how he hopes the reenactment will help empower people. This was a project about freedom and emancipation b. That is something that really celebrates an important point in American History this. Should be much more known in the rebels were heroes and i also want people to think about how this past connects to the present not just the past of slavery but actually the past of Freedom Fighters people fighting to get free from oppression and exploitation and what does that say for us today how do people walk in the shoes of those rebels and come up with radical solutions to the problems we confront right now joining us to discuss from new orleans louisiana. She is the head of Community Outreach for the slave rebellion reenactment of ramos act is director of research at the whitney plantation in louisiana its the only Plantation Museum in the reeds and that focuses on slavery and you recount is a filmmaker for films he produced a documentary about the 1811 slave rebellion earlier this year welcome all of you to the stream now you all attended the reenactment last week some us participants as spectators but i want to pick your brains on what it was like but 1st this from people online using the hash tag slave rebellion reenactment to share pictures and videos of what that was like this from eric johnson have a listen theyre. Chanting on to your latest book going to end slavery freedom or death and join us. When did you learn about the 1811 rebellion. Well i discovered a paragraph in the book and the mid ninetys that just that topic was the largest slave rebellion and u. S. History and it turned out to be louisiana i was i was filled with so much pride at that moment and then it took a couple more years before a thing was really published about the event and by the end of the ninetys i had created a production to tell the story. Well the pride because thats your hometown and so youre saying this was not too long ago that you found out about it why do you think that is why do you think you didnt learn this history rowing up well if this history is suppressed i mean even today up until this event it was difficult to talk about nobody wanted to talk about it everyone wanted to keep it in the class and or suppressed because its very painful to talk about slavery. But we have to have those conversations so i want to share here and map for him a you shared this with our producers ahead of the show new orleans and the german coast 18 alive and talk to us about what were seeing on this map and and what it represents your own words is loop. Through all those who are above. The well 1000000000 is the reason turned on was not. A new suit on the left to what was the center of the evil the mayor of this nation 1st learned little bill started and then they moved. To new orleans and they were still you see the last monday edition when you know all these various top of the 14 plantation personally rabbinically spillways believe. When it goes between is. Not some kind of exposure to the blog hell take. Even. But most of the 5 happen will soon he will know very well we did up a little bit and just want to listen. Enough to do to speed most of the looting thats not even into the latest and i dont think they should and the addition is this and demands that the interesting thing about the dinner in henderson plantation abraham is the you know as im sure you know thats where the airport stands today and that was one of the official skirmishes happened absolutely when you know the american militia that was in the city tried to face off against these slave rebels now at that time of course you know the slave rebels were about 500. 00 strong and the americans could only speak together of 100. 00 men from the city so it was not very helpful for the powers that be and for the plantation class and yeah so next time folks are flying into the new Orleans Airport this keep in mind that this is where that 1st skirmish went down but is incredible andrew what do we know about how this got started how the plot to her bow formed man its an amazing story i mean charles a lot of the leader of the rebellion and this was all his kind of brainchild right he was as far as im concerned like the William Wallace of the American South and his story was just incredible he was incredibly clever and incredibly rich so resourceful and yet he was a mixed race slave driver on the wooden plantation owned by as you gramma said men will enter his master and as such he had special privileges and he was seen by his fellow slaves as men well andres lapdog essentially his right hand man and he would ask his master you know a master can i go to the trip on you as a stage to visit my girlfriend and his master and say oh yeah go ahead you know its fine to spend the night and day long and would spend the night going around to different plantations you know stirring stuff up and trying to get these more rebels to his cause and he went out it goes for months. And i think it went on more than just months it. I dont think it went on for years because were talking about a time period when theres no social media no Telephone Communications and in order for him to be able to move about doing 2 different play taishan he had to really deal. A respectable reputation with his masses and flavor so he was very smart and one of the things that the levy did was maintain the stories that happened prior from the haitian revolution and tell us that for me to cyrus after. You know when i started. Every letter actually became a were trying to say as a lucian is a who was an inspiration for to them what shall go was born by the will of the plantation and look lets remember also the modems who played a very Important Role in for many issues and maroons for those of our audience who is not familiar with that history the maroons are our slaves are people who try to run away from being inflamed from slavery and where young people who run away from or from the plantation and there were to fighting to be into the floor and. Move from plantation location will look for food to meet their people in a sort of quantification if you see it in the whos young especially so good about this very sensual polish there were so many models out there in the rules in the swarm and a child of their own was able to build up all of the all of those people variable and the list goes a little soulless movable so that the mystics maybe they have to believe that of food but oclock but that people can call it a disability tional information coming from the council that musters d to salute workers. So i want to share another picture from people because theyre so striking seeing these images here and this they here slave rebellion reenactment and see. Just one picture a depiction of what was going on last week this took about 6 years right from idea to fruition why did it take so long what was happening in that process well. Research was happening but also funding funding was very important and we started this project doing the obama years and then we shifted into a republican president and republicans are not friendly to the arts so how did you come over that hurdle what happened how did it happen well it happened because dred scott was persistent and he was determined to have this project and have this event happen. So i dont know all of the details of what he did to raise funds but i know he spent 5 years even up until a month or 2 weeks before the event occurred it was still talking to people who could possibly donate or provide some funding resource to us and i think its something that is much appreciated by at least the people that were talking to people in our community and people who have spoken to us about what it meant to them i want to play a video comment from one of those people shes a writer and a historian her name is alice and bing and heres what she told the story. This is an important American Work arent too often in u. S. History is explained as a series of conquest of battles fought in the land taken this leads americans to believe we have one choice conquer or be conquered thats a depressing prospect but we also have a tradition of resistance against impossible odds the german coast slave uprising proves that. Prescotts reenactment remind us that resistance is a hard one inherent and also might be true line in American History. Ibrahim she mentions we have a history in the tradition of resistance against impossible odds do you think that that is something that people think of when they think of slavery they think of the resistance. Up to 10 people going from the woman who resistance so one seed movie last year thats 400 views of flu before people must have been a choice but moving the rootless was clearly a good is limited and people floor against loops and so on do tend to look really hear from us or going to them started not to go it was the rules about resisting and you do people who are really appraising look planted and that would have executive you know says oh no you know that were one of the few that will look into it if you should but do a scene from went on here if theres a people resist you trying to beginning to dns and this should be taught more i mean like the person on the clip said whats more american than resisting against impossible odds but this very highly american story you know with you make comparisons to the revolutionary war and all of these american struggles for freedom right is as fred scott said virtually unknown and i think what Arthur Andersen just doesnt fit into the narrative of how we as americans like to see ourselves you know what i mean. One of the reasons i took so much pride when i 1st saw it of the paragraph about louisiana taking a stand was i know we have a very strong civil rights history but to know that we had planned as far back as 811 and took a stand and the thing about it was that they didnt just run away they are the nice themselves they are the nice to take of the government and to make a place for themselves in america because they can easily just ran away and lived in the swamps and of woods and just scattered its most of them probably would have survived if they just would have done that but they were making and a major statement and then they almost want to they almost succeeded it was really just through kind of bad luck and one or 2 sort of all circumstances i mean if they had if daylon had been. Successful in killing men well andrey is master instead andrey escaped the middle of the night getting stabbed multiple times and you know he saw his son killed in front of them and you know he was bleeding and he ran to ricky canoe mord in the river by the levee and he was able to row across the river you know bleeding profusely and finally got to a buddys house on the west bank of the river charles parades house and was able to raise that militia which then 2 days later went back across the river and hit the slave army in the rear which was what eventually kind of caused their downfall but yeah you know that that is vivid and very clear and concise the way that you just put that across and yet ive never heard that before growing up here in the u. S. In the education that i had which i like to think was quite good never heard that description and actually dont even know if i learned about this for a belly and i know im not the only one though unfortunately and i want to bring in a moment from someone watching on you tube Elizabeth Rainey watching live says whoever controls the past controls the future if we dont teach black kids or i would add in any kids American Kids about these moments of resistance they wont be inspired to fight for a Better Future so her comment is juxtaposed with the comment of someone who was referencing a little bit earlier ibrahima you referenced this i want to play it for our audience it talks about this myth the myth that slaves were complicit and complacent in their captivity its persistent rapper kanye west caused uproar last year when he said something about it and it was on the tabloid news website teams it went viral have a look you hear about slavery 100 years 400 years destiny like a choice. Like he was there for 400 years that is all you know. So every Mountain Valley not while im away im looking for canoe with. People in the military im so into i want to meet in my living plantation so we can have a discussion and tell internation county. Blues. You lovely you know what what to tell him because i know theres people in our audience im sure are watching why are emotionally i would tell him whatever i mean when theyre totally system going to come to the mic no plantation no much of the color of the skin a little it is about understanding salute really and how weighed up and weighed less so long it was this is a bit below the nerves in people for against it up personally fuck it i would like to point to what the show did on d. Day and his followers completely full what james was shooting into like defense and did you do that wish no want do want to be free and to succeed these people into wouldnt do beautifully mission but it will succeed but the rest of the risible you know lets listen with but unfortunately in this comes well it would be so much smoother ition and the people go really going deep into the real his real people and telling them the truth unfortunately this that you know he was killed in this and yeah its an event its not even just monitored its true too because this information you know days after the revolt failed this information was deliberately suppressed and deliberately minimized gov really im c. C. Claiborne who was the governor of new orleans territory at the time the american governor that is he actually gave a talk to some prominent french planters you know after the revolt had failed and everybody was expecting him to talk about this huge slave revolt that had just happened and instead he just talked about how the americans had recently annexed spanish west florida so basically were baton rouges today and all he talked about. The only mention of the slave revolt in that that speech and that talk is actually kind of a you know my concern Free Press Conference right was he said oh the bandits theyve been you know we took care of them it was just a small little insurrection dont worry yourself about it its all and. One of the things id like to bring up about that angela is that the story is still being suppressed i mean if until when the plantation came about and still now this i mean they were narrative is still that where the enslavers were the poor victims of this this rebellion and thats what we thats what this event 1811. 00 reenactment was about is changing that narrative and if you say to these plantations that you know that these people didnt have a right to want their freedom they would Say Something like well but he was a good master he didnt beat his slaves. Yeah. Thats today i want to jump in here on about and that the sanitizing of the senate i think of the history here because its happened so thoroughly so i want to share a picture this from dr Steven Thrasher at the whitney plantation he says this is horrifying and haunting and im going to scroll down here so you can see it but here it it still looks senator eyes because it looks like statues so im going to give you a closer look on the Whitney Museum has a permanent exhibit to honor the 811. 00 rebellion and includes dozens of ceramic heads which you saw here in this tweet and are mounted on spikes and it depicts what happened to some of the revolutionaries after the rebellion this is a clip from your documentary andrew i want all of our audience to have a look at this. Play born in the planters decided to make an example of the rebels 100 slaves were to capitated and their head set on pikes for 40 miles along river road from the blood plantation all the way to the boston arms in the heart of the french quarter. Was the idea behind this and i think its clear but i want to hear from you just to scare people off. No no not to scare people off i think from doing it again from revolt from revolting on probably again oh you mean the purpose yeah yeah i mean yes it was it was on Family Violence which was the only language the planter class really understood and one of the things that i wanted to make very clear in this documentary is yeah i mean this obviously that if you see that that sculpture that piece of art that memorial in person it is absolutely chilling and you take that image and you imagine all those heads on pikes for 40 miles on the levee extending into you know the last arms as i said which is today Jackson Square so the place where you see newlyweds taking the photographs you see you know a nice pleasant fountain and everybody running around having a great time people having picnics in spring in winter and spring of 1811 if you had been in Jackson Square you would have seen the skulls of these slave rebels rotting on these parks it is absolutely medieval and people going to take lives and yeah i mean its and it was absolutely brutal people should know this they should know that americans did this that we took these medieval measures. To suppress an entire group of people. And yes and yeah like there that was the whole thing is theyre making example out of them they wanted to discourage them from doing it again yeah i would like to jump in there and people manage to woo nash who gives attitudes of dissent i mean d heads you know that men were doing with the plantation is that it criticized some people say dylan did not want to build it isnt it laid that dead and the helpless little pulls there will have to be. To be seen in the pollution of resistance local people be said to live the legacy you can see in haiti and also the same time people who criticize what does good deeds disillusionment was some peoples issue that at length there will be some big cache never going to write american its a pain but i think that it should one has to do something. B. It will have to do something you know what i mean to me its all about approaches i think you know i mean i think the way the plantation has done a fantastic job really emphasizing the horror of slavery and that that order tragedy of slavery empty this event but only you got reenactments you know had some value ending in a celebration ending in an alternate history i think it is more yeah it just makes i think it makes people you know just kind of be more proud of this and so and think you know what could have been you know we were so close and this fight for freedom not if it was just a little deeper than that its a little bit more spiritually its more about choosing to have a celebration in honor of those who didnt die who did march who maybe survived but for all of those who have marched on are still struggle to slavery we celebrated their lives we celebrated their resistance we celebrated all that they have given us and brought down to us and we wanted to uplift them just like we participate in civil rights civil war reenactments and we honor. Thomas jefferson and all those guys we ship on their childs death lawn and those who marched and 1811 provoked i am what i want to hear and i want to share of video coming from someone who was part of that honoring this is jason lived with his n. P. T. Student at Cornell University but he was there at the reenactment and this is what he tells a story about what this means for us today have a listen its important to note the judge god chose a restaging rebellion that took place and what is today said john the baptist parish louisiana. Once home to the plantation is a field the great the king cotton todays perry sits at the heart of whats known as cancer alley a concentration of petrochemical plants that every day amidst 100 toxic chemicals and the largely low income black communities and marching 500 reactors through the space the performance summons a ghost of the past to show us how historical violence is a slavery still make their presence felt today and modern injustices everyday mother so much want to talk about over running out of time and so in the last minute of our shell picking up on that video comment what are the lessons that we should take with us today from this rebellion you know i just want to see the still have a long look for social justice. What i would like to see your. Piece of a solution until. I was in the door when the people mostly because i did not feel most of us. Oh you know marginal was there but it was the wrong oh michael klim we dont. Find it almost where we see him thats what i would also influenced people finally made it into new orleans and thats really important and the only people who also lost what you know believe in its motion to dismiss what i mean people were. Going to learn something about sleeping what was going on when i had a policy there thats all the time we have around thank you to all of our gas for being part of the Star Community as well and you can check out a. J. Plus on instagram for more on this next week theyll have more details about their rebellion we will see you on mine. This is what it is you begin to see that its going to be ideological battle lines over abortion. Because challenging a womans right to choose some of the groups thats been ignored now for decades has been. Against those lined up to defend that choice were talking about being able to make decisions for our body. Investigates the abortion bans on. Investigative journalism the World Trade Center and this is like. 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