Our distinguished colleague Professor Emeritus William C. (Bill) Gilmore has just published an important and fascinating study of the mutiny by enslaved captives on board the U.S. brig Creole in the fall of 1841. This was the most successful high-seas uprising in the history of the American coastal slave trade. It gave rise to a major diplomatic dispute with the British, resulted in extensive litigation in the courts of Louisiana, and was later the subject of an important international arbitration. Professor Gilmore considers these matters in detail in his new book and reflects on the significance of the mutiny and its place in the history of slavery and its abolition.
It has already received high praise. It has been published by Louisiana State University Press.
Professor Gilmore recently published anther work with an important Louisiana connection: The Confederate Jurist: The Legal Life of Judah P. Benjamin.
