Map 3: Calculating Distances
Plotting the modern locations of the key sites of the uprising on Google Maps provides an exact calculation of distances, and even a calculation of the time it would take to walk these distances.
Google Maps estimates that Manuel Andry’s plantation is 21.3 miles from the Kenner and Henderson plantations, a 6 hour and 53 minute walk. The program estimates that the Kenner and Henderson plantation is 12.3 miles, or a 4 hours and 4 minute walk, from the Place D’Armes, the center of New Orleans.324
Because of the heavy rain, these walking times would have been significantly longer in 1811, though horses would have moved somewhat faster.
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