White lies: Human property and domestic slavery aboard the slave ship Creole

摘要: Abstract We cannot suppress the slave trade – it is a natural operation, as old and constant ocean. George Fitzhugh It one thing to manage company of slaves on Virginia plantation quite another quell an insurrection lonely billows Atlantic, where every breeze speaks courage liberty. Frederick Douglass This paper explores voyage ship Creole, which left in 1841 with cargo 135 persons bound for New Orleans. Although importation from Africa into United States was banned 1808, expansion slavery American Southwest took form forced migration within States, or at least beneath States's flag. About two-thirds million were transported this “domestic” between 1820 1860 (another three hundred thousands moved by their owners same period). But those aboard Creole not be among them: group revolted, t...