The Creole Affair: The Slave Rebellion that Led the U.S. and Great Britain to the Brink of War

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The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave revolt in American history, and the effects of that revolt 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 regulate of the ship and changed course to the Bahamas. Because the Bahamas were subject to British rule of law, the slaves were in the end set free, and these American slaves’ presence on foreign soil sparked one of The usa’s most contentious diplomatic battles with the United Kingdom, the nation in regulate of those remote islands.

Though the revolt gave the impression a success, the ensuing political battle between the USA and Britain that would lead the rivals to the brink of their third war, used to be just beginning. As such, The Creole Affair is just as importantly a story of diplomacy: of two abnormal non-professional diplomats who cleverly resolved the tensions arising from this historic slave uprising that, had they been allowed to escalate, had the potential of catastrophe.

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