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The Creole Affair
The Slave Rebellion that Led the U.S. and Great Britain to the Brink of War
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2014
Summary
The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, and the effects of that rebellion on diplomacy, the domestic slave trade, and the definition of slavery itself. Held against their will aboard the Creole—a slave ship on its way from Richmond to New Orleans in 1841—the rebels seized control of the ship and changed course to the Bahamas. Because the Bahamas were subject to British rule of law, the slaves were eventually set free, and these American slaves' presence on foreign soil sparked one of America's most contentious diplomatic battles with the UK, the nation in control of those remote islands.
Though the rebellion appeared a success, the ensuing political battle between the United States and Britain that would lead the rivals to the brink of their third war, was just beginning. As such, The Creole Affair is just as importantly a story of diplomacy: of two extraordinary non-professional diplomats who cleverly resolved the tensions arising from this historic slave uprising that, had they been allowed to escalate, had the potential for catastrophe.
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Edition
1/2014
Copyright Year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-3661-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-3662-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
227
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Dramatis Personae No access Pages 7 - 8
The Rebellion No access Pages 9 - 16
1 The United States No access
2 US-British Relations—At the Brink No access
3 The British Bahamas No access
4 In Nassau No access
5 In the United States No access
6 Enter Diplomacy; Crisis Averted No access
7 Insurance for Slave “Property” No access
8 Should the British Have Freed the Slaves? No access
