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The Creole Affair
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-3661-5 (ISBN)
The Creole Affair is the story of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, and the effects of that rebellion on diplomacy, the domestic slave trade, and the definition of slavery itself. Held against their will aboard the Creole—a slave ship on its way from Richmond to New Orleans in 1841—the rebels seized control of the ship and changed course to the Bahamas. Because the Bahamas were subject to British rule of law, the slaves were eventually set free, and these American slaves' presence on foreign soil sparked one of America's most contentious diplomatic battles with the UK, the nation in control of those remote islands.
Though the rebellion appeared a success, the ensuing political battle between the United States and Britain that would lead the rivals to the brink of their third war, was just beginning. As such, 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 they been allowed to escalate, had the potential for catastrophe.
Arthur T. Downey has at various times been a lawyer, a law professor, business executive, diplomat, and former National Security Council staff member. He is the author of Civil War Lawyers: Constitutional Questions, Courtroom Dramas, and the Men Behind Them (2011).
INTRODUCTION
THE REBELLION
PART I: THE CONTEXT: PRE-NOVEMBER 1841
Chapter 1: THE UNITED STATES
Chapter 2: US – BRITISH RELATIONS AT THE BRINK
Chapter 3:THE BRITISH BAHAMAS
PART II: NOVEMBER 1841, FORWARD
Chapter 4: IN NASSAU
Chapter 5: IN THE UNITED STATES
Chapter 6: ENTER DIPLOMACY; CRISIS AVERTED
PART III: AFTERWARD
Chapter 7: INSURANCE FOR SLAVE “PROPERTY”
Chapter 8: SHOULD THE BRITISH HAVE FREED THE SLAVES?
Chapter 9: A FORMER SLAVE’S HEROIC SLAVE
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX I: Chronology
APPENDIX II: President Tyler’s Message to Congress, Dec. 7, 1841
APPENDIX III: Exchange of Diplomatic Notes, August 1, 6, 8, 1842
ENDNOTES
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.10.2014 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4422-3661-2 / 1442236612 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-3661-5 / 9781442236615 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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