Deslondes’s rebellion was put down decisively but had a major impact on the political history of Louisiana, and thereby upon the entire Mississippi River Valley. Planter communities that had once looked upon the idea of integration into the United States with suspicion and hostility now quickly warmed to statehood. This was out of a shared belief that their local militias would never again be adequate to the task of enforcing the radical inequality and suffocating oppression that were the inescapable foundations of a slave society.
