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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.
In 1841, according to Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie's Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade (2019), Thomas McCargo was one of several traders who were using the Creole to ship slaves from the Chesapeake region of the Upper South to the labor-hungry capitalists of the Cotton Kingdom. [23]
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]
Newspaper report about the Chatham Manor Revolt (Aurora General Advertiser, Philadelphia, January 9, 1805) Historians in the 20th century identified 250 to 311 slave uprisings in U.S. and colonial history. [15] Those after 1776 include: Gabriel's conspiracy (1800) Igbo Landing slave escape and mass suicide (1803) Chatham Manor Rebellion (1805)
1825 Great African Slave Revolt (Cuba, suppressed) 1831 Nat Turner's rebellion (Virginia, suppressed) 1831–32 Baptist War (British Jamaica, suppressed) 1839 Amistad, ship rebellion (off the Cuban coast, victorious) 1841 Creole case, ship rebellion (off the Southern U.S. coast, victorious) 1842 slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation
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 ...
[1] Hagan was both a shipper and consignee (intended recipient) of enslaved people who were on the Creole in 1841. [6] Before he died in 1856 he worked assiduously to manumit a young enslaved woman from Virginia named Lucy Ann Cheatam, and her two children, Frederika Bremer "Dolly" Cheatam and William Lowndes Cheatam. [4]