The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History

by Bruce Chadwick Narrated by Rick Adamson

Overview

The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction block in November 1841, nineteen captives mutinied, killing one man and injuring several others. After taking control of the vessel, mutineer Madison Washington forced the crewmen to sail to the Bahamas. Despite much local hysteria upon their arrival, all of the 135 slaves aboard the ship won their freedom there.



The revolt significantly fueled and amplified the slave debate within a divided nation that was already hurtling toward a Civil War. While this is a book about the United States confronting the ugly and tumultuous issue of slavery, it is also about the 135 enslaved men and women who were unwilling to take their oppression any longer and rose up to free themselves in a bloody fight. Part history, part adventure, and part legal drama, Bruce Chadwick chronicles the most successful slave revolt in the pages of American history.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The Creole mutiny was a blazing landmark in the torturous journey toward the abolition of slavery in the United States. This informative and well-written book provides a rendering of this turning point that must not only be read, but studied.—Gerald Horne, author of Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation

Bruce Chadwick is a historian who never forgets that his chief task is to tell a good story. The story of the Creole, no doubt the most successful of all slave insurrections, presents what may be one of the few bright spots in the grim history of American slavery. It is fascinating in itself, but it also illuminates the other slave insurrections, on land and sea, of which too many Americans might otherwise be unaware.—Michael Aaron Rockland, author of An American Diplomat in Franco Spain

Bruce Chadwick is a historian who never forgets that his chief task is to tell a good story. The story of the Creole, no doubt the most successful of all slave insurrections, presents what may be one of the few bright spots in the grim history of American slavery. It is fascinating in itself, but it also illuminates the other slave insurrections, on land and sea, of which too many Americans might otherwise be unaware.—Michael Aaron Rockland, author of An American Diplomat in Franco Spain

Product Details

BN ID:	2940175399821
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	06/28/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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