1795 Pointe Coupee Conspiracy

The 1791 Conspiracy in Pointe Coupee

Similar to the 1795 conspiracy, the 1791 Pointe Coupee Conspiracy “was an African ethnic movement organized from the estate of Widow Provillar by her Mina slaves and those belonging to a number of different masters” (320).
 
The 1791 conspiracy, aids in understanding the 1795 conspiracy (324).
  1. All of the accused slaves denied the accusations.
  2. They all claimed that they were beaten, when they refused to admit their guilt.
  3. They stated that they could not understand what was being said to them, because it was not in the Louisiana Creole language.

Interesting Points that confirm discrepancies in court documents (325).
  1. All of the prisoners housed together, so they could have conspired to present false testimony.
  2. There was evidence that several citizens who originally testified perjured themselves and swore falsely under oath that they witnessed the interrogations of the Mina slaves. 
  3. The witnesses admitted that they were pressured by Leblanc into signing documents, that he himself had written.
  4. Many masters of the accused slaves wanted them deemed innocent and returned back to them.
  5. Slaves were sent back to their masters or sold to pay for the cost of jailing them — putting an end to this trial in January 1793.


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