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

Gilmore, William C.

 
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Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

William C. Gilmore is professor emeritus of international criminal law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and author of The Confederate Jurist: The Legal Life of Judah P. Benjamin.

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