MANUSCRIPT SOURCES ON 1791 AND 1795 POINTE COUPEE SLAVE CONSPIRACIES
Official and Reserved Correspondence among Governor Carondelet, New Orleans Cabildo, and Post Syndics and Commandants, Legajos 22, 31, 211AB, 212AB, and 227A, April 1795 to February 1796, Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain.
Minutes of the Extraordinary Sessions of the Cabildo, Actas del Cabildo, Book 4, Volumes 1 and 2, 25 April 1795 through 2 May 1795, City Archives and Louisiana Collection, New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Moniteur de la Louisiane, 22 June 1795. Enclosed in Gayoso to Alcudia, Legajo 3902, Folder 6, Archivo Historico Nacional, Seccion de Estado, Madrid, Spain.
Trial of Mina Conspirators in New Orleans, Legajo 168A, 26 March 1792 to 8 April 1794,Papeles Procedentes de Cuba, Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain.
Procès contre les Esclaves du Poste de Pointe Coupee, Original Acts of Pointe Coupee, Volume 1880, Folders 1-265, 25 April 1795 through 29 May 1795, Pointe Coupee Courthouse, New Roads, Louisiana.
Province of Louisiana v. Coffy, 16 June 1795, in Notarial Acts of Francisco Broutin, 1790-98, Vol. 36, Doc. 21, pp. 944-984, Original Acts of Orleans Parish, Notarial Archives, Orleans Parish Clerk of Civil District Court, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Testimonio del Proceso Criminal de los Negroes Rebueltos de este Puesto contra los Blancos de Dicho Puesto, Volume 1792, Number 1758, Original Acts of Pointe Coupee, Pointe Coupee Courthouse, New Roads, Louisiana.
Proceedings against the Negroes of Pointe Coupee for the Crime of Revolution, 1795-05-02-01, Spanish Judicial Records, Louisiana Historical Center, New Orleans Jazz Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Interstate Succession of Claude Trenonay, Planter at Pointe Coupee, Murdered by Runaway Slave on July 10, 1792. Document 1792-10-03-01, Spanish Judicial Records, Louisiana Historical Center, New Orleans Jazz Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana
COGNATE SOURCES ON OTHER SLAVE CONSPIRACIES
Edmund Bohun, A brief, but most true relation of the late barbarous and bloody plot of the negro's in the island of Barbado's . . . to kill the governour and all the planters, and to destroy the government there established, and to set up a new governour and government of their own (London: George Croom, 1693).
Lemuel Conner, “Testimony of Fourteen Slaves Relative to a Proposed Slave Uprising in Adams County, Mississippi.” Lemuel P. Conner and Family Papers, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Louisiana State University Libraries, Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge.
“Expediente Sobre Declarar. Conspiración de José Antonio Aponte,” 24 Marzo 1812, Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Fondo Asuntos Políticos, Legajo 12, Número 17.
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Lionel H. Kennedy and Thomas Parker, An Official Report of the Trial of Sundry Negroes Charged with an Attempt to Raise an Insurrection in the State of South Carolina. Charleston: James R. Schenck, 1822.
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WEBSITES
Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-61: revolt.axismaps.com
Digital Aponte: aponte.hosting.nyu.edu
Slave Societies Digital Archive: slavesocieties.org