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"The Creole (Richmond Compiler)" Alexandria Gazette, December 20, 1841. The 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 ...
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.
The most notable case was the 1841 Creole, the result of a ship slave revolt that forced the vessel into Nassau, Bahamas. One of the slave leaders had heard of slaves being freed from the Hermosa there the previous year. [3]
The Decatur slave-ship mutiny was an act of slave rebellion in the United States that occurred in April ... Creole case – 1841 slave-ship seizure History of slavery ...
In 1841, an American ship, the Creole, was transporting slaves from Virginia to New Orleans. A mutiny took place, and the ship was captured by the British and taken to the Bahamas . The British refused to return the slaves to their masters.
1841 Creole case, ship rebellion (off the Southern U.S. coast, victorious) 1842 slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation ... The St. Joseph Mutiny of 1837 in Trinidad, ...
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 ...
In November 1841, a slave revolt on the American merchantman brig Creole, part of the coastwise slave trade, had forced the ship to call at the port of Nassau in the Bahamas. British / Bahamian colonial officials eventually emancipated all 128 slaves who chose to stay in Nassau, as Britain had already abolished slavery in its colonies ...