The Creole Mutiny: A Tale of Revolt Aboard a Slave Ship

by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick

Book Overview

On the night of November 7, 1841, the Creole, a brig transporting at least 135 slaves from Richmond, Virginia, to the auction block at New Orleans, was about 130 miles northeast of the Bahamas. In the darkness, a band of 19 slaves led by Madison Washington seized the crew and its captain. Over the next several days they forced the Creole to sail into Nassau harbor, where the British authorities offered freedom to the slaves on board, touching off...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566635500
• ISBN13: 9781566635509
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Madison and more

This was an excellent book! The Hendricks piece together a few accounts on the events that led to the Creole Mutiny and the circumstances surrounding the lead figure of the mutiny, Madison Washington. This includes stories by Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown. They also include interesting facts about other heroic individuals who went far and beyond for freedom. It's a definite keeper and great reference book for the history of Africans in America. (For more on this subject and more visit: [...])

Pieces from different sources are brought together

George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick's THE CREOLE MUTINY may prove of interest to a narrower audience of students of Afro-American and regional American history, but it's no less powerful for its coverage. Here is a story of revolt aboard a slave ship in 1841: one which led to British authorities offering freedom to the slaves who took over their captors and sailed into Nassau. Little has been written about this revolt because little has been known of it: pieces from different sources are brought together to fill in the gaps, here.