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"The Creole (Richmond Compiler)" Alexandria Gazette, December 20, 1841The Creole mutiny, sometimes called the Creole case, was a slave revolt aboard the American slave ship Creole in November 1841, when the brig was seized by the 128 slaves who were aboard the ship when it reached Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas where slavery was abolished.
Madison Washington was an American enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in America on November 7, 1841, on board the brig Creole, which was transporting 134 other slaves from Virginia for sale in New Orleans, as part of the coastwise slave trade. [1] Washington was born into slavery in Virginia.
There were several cases: Comet (1830), Encomium (1833), Enterprise (1835), Hermosa (1840), and, most notably, the Creole case of 1841, the result of a ship slave revolt that forced the vessel into Nassau, Bahamas. British officials freed the 128 slaves who chose to stay in the Bahamas.
As retold by historian Calvin Schermerhorn, the Decatur mutiny led to a famous instance of anti-abolitionist violence. When pioneering abolitionist Benjamin Lundy covered Bowser's trial and execution, he reported that "Bowser forgave Woolfolk while walking to the Ellis Island gallows as the slave trader cursed him. When Lundy ran into Woolfolk ...
List of shipwrecks in November 1841; C. Creole mutiny; D. HMS Driver (1840) W. William Salthouse (ship) This page was last edited on 18 August 2018, at 08:33 ...
1841 Creole case, ship rebellion (off the Southern U.S. coast, victorious) 1842 slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation (Indian Territory, suppressed) 1843–44 Ladder Conspiracy (Spanish Cuba, suppressed) 1849 Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion (South Carolina, suppressed) 1859 John Brown's raid (Virginia, suppressed)
Creole mutiny; Cretan Revolt (1841) D. Dogra–Tibetan war; Dorr Rebellion; E. Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841) F. Battle of Famaillá ...
1872 Cavite mutiny; Channar revolt; Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion; Chernigov Regiment revolt; Chichibu incident; Chuguev uprising; Chumash revolt of 1824; Chuquisaca Revolution; Creole mutiny; Cretan Revolt (1841) Cretan revolt (1866–1869) Cretan Revolt (1897–1898) Cuban War of Independence