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When it comes to how the United States of America portrays slavery it depicts that slaves were very docile and didn’t fight back. However, this was not the case and there were numerous slave rebellions, but they are not usually taught in school or displayed on TV/movies. Madison Washington an American slave who started a slave revolt in 1841 on board the brig Creole. The ship was transporting over 130 slaves from Virginia to New Orleans to sell.

The Creole was a domestic ship but the Black men and women on board still suffered conditions such as international slave ships i.e. indiscriminate cruelty, sexual abuse, physical deprivation etc.

SEE ALSO: Denmark Vesey Attempted Slave Rebellion in 1822