It has attracted a lot of attention and been the subject of much historical research.
On May 4, 1795, 57 enslaved people and three local white men were put on trial in modern day Pointe Coupée Parish after an attempted slave conspiracy in the vicinity of the Pointe Coupee military post.
Planters found a copy of Victor de Mirabeau (Mirabeau the Elder)'s Théorie de l'Impôt, which included the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, in one cabin.
[2] The trial ended with 23 of the enslaved people being hanged, their corpses decapitated, and their heads posted along the road.
All three white men were deported with two sentenced to six years forced labor in Havana.