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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.
Thomas McCargo continued in the slave trade after the Creole revolt. [23] There was a letter waiting for Thomas McCargo at the New Orleans post office in April 1851. [25] "T McCargo, N O" arrived at the Galt House hotel in Louisville on October 15, 1851. [26] "T McCargo Va" arrived at the Louisville Hotel on September 8, 1852. [27]
Creole case (1841) (the most successful slave revolt in US history) 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation [28] Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion (1849) [29] John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) (failed attempt to organize a slave rebellion)
[3] Slave rebellions in the United States were small and diffuse compared with those in other slave economies in part due to "the conditions that tipped the balance of power against southern slaves—their numerical disadvantage, their creole composition, their dispersal in relatively small units among resident whites—were precisely the same ...
Historian and the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, Joseph McGill Jr., has waged a counter-attack on anti-CRT by way of a poignant three-day conference.
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]
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