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Author Downey, Arthur T.

Title The Creole affair : the slave rebellion that led the U.S. and Great Britain to the brink of war / Arthur T. Downey
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Contents 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
Summary The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in modern history. The Creole Affair 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Washington, Madison
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Ashburton, Alexander Baring, Baron, 1774-1848.
SUBJECT Ashburton, Alexander Baring, Baron, 1774-1848 fast
Washington, Madison fast
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 fast
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842 August 9) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92044358
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842 August 9) fast
Subject Creole (Brig)
Slave rebellions -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Mutiny -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Bahamas -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
Mutiny
Slave rebellions
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States
Subject Bahamas
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442236622
1442236620