The 1811 German Coast Uprising is a revolt of black slaves in parts of the Territory of Orleans on January 8–10, 1811.

The uprising occurs on the east bank of the Mississippi River in what is now St. John the Baptist and St. Charles Parishes, Louisiana.

While the slave insurgency is the largest in US history, the rebels kill only two white men.

Confrontations with militia and executions after trial kill ninety-five black people.

Between sixty-four and one hundred and twenty-five enslaved men march  from sugar plantations near present-day LaPlace on the German Coast toward the city of New Orleans.

They collect more men along the way.

Some accounts claim a total of two hundred to five hundred slaves participated.

During their two-day, twenty-mile march, the men burn five plantation houses (three completely), several sugarhouses, and crops.

They are armed mostly with hand tools.

White men led by officials of the territory form militia companies to hunt down and kill the insurgents.

Over the next two weeks, white planters and officials interrogate, try and execute an additional forty-four insurgents who had been captured.

Executions are generally by hanging or firing squad, with some dismembering of the remains.

Heads are displayed on pikes to intimidate other slaves.

From 1995, the African American History Alliance of Louisiana will lead an annual commemoration in January of the uprising, in which they will be joined by some descendants of participants in the revolt.