Self-Emancipation on the High Seas The Creole Slave Mutiny of 1841 in Legal and Diplomatic Perspective [#1048388]

Self-Emancipation on the High Seas: The Creole Slave Mutiny of 1841 in Legal and Diplomatic Perspective by William C. Gilmore
English | September 8, 2025 | ISBN: 0807184861 | True EPUB | 174 pages | 2.6 MB
The mutiny by enslaved captives on board the U.S. brig Creole in the fall of 1841 was the most successful high-seas uprising in the history of the American coastal slave trade. It gave rise to a major diplomatic dispute with the British, resulted in extensive litigation in the courts of Louisiana, and was later the subject of an important international arbitration. Self-Emancipation on the High Seas considers these matters in detail and reflects on the significance of the mutiny and its place in the history of slavery and its abolition.