Name: Self-Emancipation on the High Seas: The Creole Slave Mutiny of 1841 in Legal and Diplomatic Perspective
Brand: LSU Press
SKU: 9780807184868
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Author: William C. Gilmore
ISBN: 9780807184868

Self-Emancipation on the High Seas: The Creole Slave Mutiny of 1841 in Legal and Diplomatic Perspective

By William C. Gilmore

LSU Press September 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780807184868
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication: September 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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.