Enslaved people revolted rather than wait for masters’ opinions to change.

Evidence

On January 8, 1811, about fifteen captives on a sugar plantation in an area known as the German Coast wounded a planter, Major Manuel Andry, and killed his son. Bearing military uniforms and guns, cane knives, and axes while beating drums and waving flags, they started marching from plantation to plantation, swelling their numbers and the dead bodies of enslavers. In time, between two hundred and five hundred biracial and African people had joined the thirty-five-mile freedom march to invade New Orleans. Led by Asante warriors Quamana and Kook, along with biracial men Harry Kenner and Charles Deslondes—and inspired by the Haitian Revolution—these revolutionaries waged the largest slave revolt in the history of the United States. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 372

Categorization

• SEED: An 1811 German Coast uprising framing — the largest US slave revolt, yet almost forgotten relative to Nat Turner and Haiti — could anchor an essay on the erasure of Black revolutionary agency from US memory.
• ADDENDUM: Pairs naturally with the sacrifice article’s treatment of agency under extreme constraint — here the enslaved choose armed revolt over patient endurance, the inverse of sacrificial resignation.
• XREF: connects to: Franklin answered proslavery property claims by noting enslaved people could revolt. — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 295