Creole affair : the slave rebellion that led the U.S. and Great Britain to the brink of war / Arthur T. Downey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Downey, Arthur T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--West Indies, British.

Enslaved persons.

Mutiny--United States.

Mutiny.

Slave rebellions--United States.

Slave rebellions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Creole Affair</span><span> is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in modern history. </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Creole Affair</span><span> 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 it been allowed to escalate, had the potential for catastrophe.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Dramatis Personae; The Rebellion; I: The Context: Pre-November 1841; 1 The United States; 2 US-British Relations-At the Brink; 3 The British Bahamas; II: Forward: November 1841; 4 In Nassau; 5 In the United States; 6 Enter Diplomacy; Crisis Averted; III: Afterward: Post-November 1841; 7 Insurance for Slave "Property"; 8 Should the British Have Freed the Slaves?; 9 A Former Slave's Heroic Slave; Epilogue; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Notes; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-8183-311-4

1-4422-3662-0

OCLC:

889674946