He is also presented by Le Page du Pratz as having served the French as an interpreter and a slave overseer.
The insurrection was due to take place in June 1731, but is said to have been revealed to the colonial authorities after an argument between an enslaved woman and a drunken French marine.
The accused were publicly executed on the Place d'Armes, Jackson Square in New Orleans, on the orders of Gov.
[2][4] In 1936, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's magazine The Crisis published an article claiming that the Samba planned to kill all the whites and to keep enslaved non-Bambara Africans.
[5] Later scholarship has questioned the details about the revolt, including whether Samba had participated in prior uprisings and if the Bambara were as homogenous of a group as the contemporary reports implied.