Examines the successful slave revolt aboard the US slave ship Creole during the early 1840s and its consequences.

1. Eagle versus lion; 2. The coastal passage; 3. 'Several cases'; 4. 'Engaged in the business ever since she was constructed'; 5. 'The Negroes have risen'; 6. 'Their determination to quit the vessel'; 7. 'Old neighbors'; 8. 'A new state of things'; 9. 'Property rights' versus 'rights of man'; 10. Causa Proxima, Non Remota, Spectator; 11. 'Full and final settlement'; Epilogue.

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie is Professor of History at Howard University, Washington DC and author of Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900 (1999); Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (2007); and Freedom's Seekers: Essays on Comparative Emancipation (2014).