That are rapidly changing the world we live in so is it possible for trump to actually. Counting the cost on aljazeera. 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 and came up with an alternate ending to the march 8th 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 and 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 onto your latest were going to end slavery freedom that 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 large is slave rebellion and us history and it turned out to be the e. C. M. 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 growing 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 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 touch us about what were seeing on this map and and what it represents your own distro purchases loop. Through all those who are involved. With 1000000000 is the music turned on with. A new suit on the left to what was the center of the evil the manner of this plantation 1st word little bill started and then theyll move. 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 to be limitless belief is. Not some kind of exposure to the blog he jake. Peavy wouldnt believe. But most of the 5 happen will soon d he will know very well we did a little bit and just want to listen. Enough to dilute disputed most of the looting thats not even only seen the latest i dont think. In the edition 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 strong and the americans could only speak together at 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 in order for him to be able to move about doing 2 different plane taisha as 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 after we had a cyrus after. You know a man so i mean i started. Every laotian every may were trying to say as a lucian is a who was an inspiration for them what shall go was born by the will of the plantation and little less women but also the little ones who played a very Important Role in for manipulation 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 suit before ration it can see in that crowd of whose you know especially so good about despair essential polish the will 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 saloon the mystics maybe adaptability a bit of food little club at the very bottom 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 yes 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 d 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 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 of art too often in us history is explained as a series of conquests 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 inheritance and also might be is a through 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 who for the women who work resistance so one seed movie last year that 400 years of slim beautiful black people must have been a choice but moving the rulebooks was looting limited goodness leviton people floor against loops and so im determined to look really here from us are going to have been started not to go it was a ruse about resisting and futile people who are really appraising look planted and that would have executive you know says oh no you know what were in the future well look into that if you should but do a scene from went on t. V. If theres a people resist you trying to beginning to dns and this should be taught more i mean like the person in 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 that was and 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 they won 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 rants you reckon he can do more good 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 he endured 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 comments of someone who was reference 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 ever him out of balance not while im away im looking for kind words there was a 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 yeah blue is. 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 new plantation not much of the color of the skin a little of what it is about understanding salute really and how wake up and way less so long into this is a bit of all of the nerds and 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 flew up to join in washington and to my defense and we did it wish no war the will to be free and it succeeded these people into wanted to big blue nation but they didnt succeed but the reasonable you know listen listen with but unfortunately in this comes were able were they so lets move ition and the people who dont really going deep into dont really use real people and tell them the truth unfortunately this the you know who was you know this and yeah exactly its not even just modern history too because this information you know days after the revolt failed this information was deliberately suppressed and deliberately minimized gov really m c c claiborne it 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 whitney plantation came about and still now this image 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 us 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 plaza 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 as 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 managed to woo nash who gives attitudes of dissent i meet heads in a documentary on with their politician is a bit criticize some people say dylan did not want to believe them to lead that day and the helpless little falls there will have to be. To be seen in the pollution of resistance like it will be said to all of the legless you can see in haiti and those are the same type people who criticize what does what eat disillusionment was some peoples issue look at length that there will be some big cache never going to write american its a pain but it i think that it should one has to do something. Be it a little tip 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 the author 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 our 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 a 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 plantations a few of the great the king cotton todays parish sits at the heart of whats known as cancer alley a concentration of petro chemical plants that every day and thats tons of toxic chemicals and the largely low income black communities are marching 500 enactors through this space the performance summons the ghosts 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. Gaze of a celebration on. I wasnt the only people mostly because i didnt feel most of us. Oh you know marginal was there but it was the wrong oh michael klim you dont. Get to find it almost with so you know thats what i what i was so influenced people finally made it into new orleans and thats really important and the only people who also lost why should i believe in its motion to dismiss what i mean to congress were. Going to learn something about sleep in what is going on what i have is a policy thats all the time we have around thank you to all of our gas for being part of this track community as well and you can check out its a plus on instagram for more on this next week theyll have more details about the rebellion we will see you on mine. Mass protests forcing the government but are we seeing. This john. Murtha we follow journalists on the frontline to speak to. Free press committed to reporting the fact Police Officers pointing guns at journalists say stop hong kong frankton friction the truth is it anyway on aljazeera. 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