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The Creole Rebellion of 1841
The Creole was just another slave ship crossing the Atlantic in November 1841, carrying human cargo to Southern markets. Then Madison Washington changed everything.
This formerly escaped slave led a rebellion that freed 128 people and nearly sparked a war between America and Britain. The rebels knew exactly where to go for freedom: Nassau, where British law had already ended slavery…