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TIL that the 1841 Creole Mutiny -- the "most successful slave revolt in U.S. history" -- won the freedom of 128 people when the Creole, a ship carrying slaves from Virginia for sale in New Orleans, was taken over and sent to the Bahamas, straining U.S. relations with Great Britain.

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