Название: Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade
Автор: Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108476244
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 372
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Размер: 3,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
In late October 1841, the Creole left Richmond with 137 slaves bound for New Orleans. It arrived five weeks later minus the Captain, one passenger, and most of the captives. Nineteen rebels had seized the US slave ship en route and steered it to the British Bahamas where the slaves gained their liberty. Drawing upon a sweeping array of previously unexamined state, federal, and British colonial sources, Rebellious Passage examines the neglected maritime dimensions of the extensive US slave trade and slave revolt. The focus on south-to-south self-emancipators at sea differs from the familiar narrative of south-to-north fugitive slaves over land. Moreover, a broader hemispheric framework of clashing slavery and antislavery empires replaces an emphasis on US antebellum sectional rivalry.