Nicholas Simon

Massacre of women and children escaping from Cawnpore in boats, 1859. Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. Public Domain.

The Sepoy Revolt and Slavery

When rebellion broke out in British India in 1857, reports of the ‘mutiny’ soon became entangled in the debate over slavery in the United States.