Note 244 — Chapter XVI
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The outbreak occurred in January, 1811, in the parish of St. John the Baptist. See account in Martin, History of Louisiana (New Orleans, 1827), ii, p. 300; also Gayarré, History of Louisiana (New Orleans, 1903), iv, p. 266. An earlier uprising took place in 1795 on the Poydras plantation (see ante, note 234), during the owner’s absence in the United States. See Gayarré, iii, p. 354.—Ed.