On the night of January 8, 1811, up to 500 enslaved people took up arms in one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history. The uprising began on the grounds of a plantation owned by Manuel Andry, now the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House in LaPlace, Louisiana, where the first bloodshed likely occurred. The revolutionaries marched down River Road toward New Orleans, killing two plantation owners, torching several buildings, and drawing other enslaved people into their two-day march. After an initial encounter with militia near Kenner, Louisiana, they were forced back to near present-day Norco (New Sarpy), where a brutal encounter and subsequent trials at Destrehan Plantation and other locations left about 100 participants dead. Many of the enslaved were beheaded, and their heads were staked on the levee in front of plantations for nearly 60 miles as a warning to others. Though the action was technically unsuccessful, the rebellion's reverberations echoed across the young United States as the first of several large-scale militant actions against slavery across the South in the decades leading up to the Civil War and Emancipation. The house later became the boyhood home of famed jazz trombonist Kid Ory and has opened as a museum to his music with the largest Kid Ory archive in the world.