1811 Slave Revolt German Coast Uprising. The history of the 1811 events almost lost in history. 1811 Slave Revolt German Coast Uprising is Louisiana’s Forgotten Rebellion. It takes place in early January of 1811, a band of enslaved men armed themselves with cane knives, axes, and whatever they could gather, and launched what would become the largest slave rebellion in American history. They rose up not in Virginia or Georgia, but along the fertile banks of the Mississippi River in what was then known as the German Coast, an area populated by descendants of German and French-German immigrants, nestled just…