Barbara Campbell

The Barbara Campbell sails from St Helena with recaptured Africans bound for Grenada

📅 22 Mei 1863

The Barbara Campbell left St Helena for Grenada on 22 May 1863 with African recaptives under an emigration and indenture scheme. A Cambridge study identifies this as the last ship to bring liberated...

A colonial dispatch reports deaths aboard the Barbara Campbell

📅 3 Juli 1863

A dispatch dated 3 July 1863 reported that five Africans died at sea aboard the Barbara Campbell. The ship had carried recaptives from St Helena toward Grenada; the surgeon said some sick people had...