![]() As 128 slaves gained freedom resulting from this revolt, it is considered the most successful in United States history. Five had remained on the ship and chose to return to the United States and slavery. ![]() ![]() The remaining 116 slaves had achieved freedom immediately in the preceding fall. A special session of the Admiralty Court heard the case, but ruled in favor of the men and freed them in April 1842. The British authorities in Nassau took Washington and his 17 conspirators into custody under charges of mutiny. Despite American protests, the British declared the slaves to be free persons under their law and refused American demands for their return. The United Kingdom had already abolished slavery in 1833 in the British Empire. Taking control of the Creole, they commanded that it be sailed to Nassau, which was a British colony. 7, 1841, Washington led 18 of his fellow slaves into rebellion, killing slave trader John R. ![]() Madison Washington was an American enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in America on November 7, 1841, on board the brig Creole, which was transporting 134 other slaves from Virginia for sale in New Orleans, as part of the coastwise slave trade. ![]()
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