French Quarter - Special Program - Leon A. Waters

The New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

and the

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve

present a special program by

Leon A. Waters

about Louisiana's 1811 Slave Revolt

Thursday, January 8 at 1:00 pm

At the National Park Service French Quarter Visitor Center

419 Decatur St, New Orleans

Leon A. Waters, historian, social activist, and publisher of the book On To New Orleans: Louisiana's Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt will present a program entitled "What was the Aim of the Heroic Charles Deslondes Revolt?" This special program is about the largest slave revolt in United States history, which took place on this date in 1811, just up the river from New Orleans.

This program is free and open to the public.