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3 unusual facts about Creole case


Creole case

In March 1842 US Representative Joshua Reed Giddings of Ohio introduced a series of nine resolutions on this topic, arguing against the federal government acting on behalf of the slaveholders.

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In 1852 the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass published a fictionalized version of the Creole revolt featuring Washington, called "The Heroic Slave."

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In 1855 the New York Times reported that an American slave had been removed by Jamaicans from the brig Young America at Savanna-la-Mar and "set at large".


Savanna-la-Mar

In the cases of the Enterprise at Bermuda in 1835 and the Creole at Nassau in 1841-1842, a total of more than 200 slaves gained freedom.


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