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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC05793
From Archive Folder	Documents Relating to 1842
Title	Message from the President of the United States...
Date	20 January 1842
Author	Tyler, John (1790-1862)
Document Type	Pamphlet; Government document
Content Description	Title continues, "... communicating, In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of correspondence in relation to the mutiny on board the brig Creole, and the liberation of the slaves who were passengers in the said vessel." 27th Congress, 2d session. Senate document 51.
Subjects	Congress Government and Civics Mutiny Slave Trade Slave Rebellion Maritime Africa Slavery President African American History
People	Tyler, John (1790-1862)
Place written	Washington, D.C.
Theme	The Presidency; Government & Politics; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans; Naval & Maritime; Merchants & Commerce; Foreign Affairs
Sub-collection	The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information	On 7 November 1841, 39 slaves on the brig Creole, en route from Richmond, Va., to New Orleans, revolted and seized the ship from its white crew. The 39, "property" of a single owner, killed a guard and wounded the captain and two others. They forced the brig to be sailed into Nassau harbor in the Bahamas, where the British government, which had outlawed slavery in 1834, offered freedom to the slaves, perhaps 139 in all (most from other "owners"), on board. The British action touched off a wave of protest in America, but the British refused to back down. Eventually, the slave owners were reimbursed more than $110,000 by the Anglo-American Claims Commission.
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859

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