The Creole Rebellion Quotes

“Lord Aberdeen...quoted the Declaration of Independence, saying that all Americans were entitled to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and then said that the declaration apparently had been discarded so that each individual state, and not the nation, could decide who had liberty and could pursue happiness and who could not.”
― Bruce Chadwick, The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History

“The situation of the country is most critical," wrote Nickolas Carroll, a New Youk businessman. "We have had no period resembling this at all. I could not depict the actual amount of suffering here, the extreme destitution of our laboring classes. Business of no kind is healthy or prosperous.”
― Bruce Chadwick, The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History