Monthly Archives: November 2019

Thanksgiving Freedom: The Creole Rebellion of 1841

OPERATION-NATION.com
November 27, 2019

White imperialist Thomas McCargo and the Johnson and Eperson Company were transporting 135 enslaved Afrikans from Virginia to New Orleans aboard the Creole in November 1841. One of the ancestors onboard was Madison Washington. He escaped imperial slavery and fled to Canada a year earlier. But Washington returned to Virginia in search of his wife. He was re-captured, placed on the Creole, and was on his way to perpetual slavery. Brother Washington’s fighting spirit wasn’t having it.

Washington led 18 other brothers on an all-out mutiny aboard the ship. They killed at least one white imperialist … Read Entire Article