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Hundreds March In Reenactment Of A Historic, But Long Forgotten Slave Rebellion

By NPR News November 10, 2019

People march along the Mississippi River levee in Louisiana on Friday as they perform in a reenactment of the 1811 German Coast Uprising. Gerald Herbert/AP

Artist Dread Scott organized the 26-mile trek to New Orleans as a tribute to the men and women who protested their enslavement in the German Coast Uprising of 1811 by re-imagining a different outcome.Read More

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