Thomas

Further escape notices record Adonis and Tilsikan

A notice dated 25 June 1822 reported that Adonis had escaped and named Thomas, known as Tilsikan, as a fugitive from the Petit-Cayenne work gang. These brief, hostile administrative descriptions...

A Grenada newspaper pairs a sale request with an advertisement seeking Thomas’s recapture

The Grenada Free Press and Public Gazette printed an advertisement seeking two boys for purchase and another offering a reward for Thomas, who had escaped from Cape Sale Estate. The notice described...

Thomas and Bartholomina are transferred in a 420-guilder transaction

First group of rebels is executed

Hira’s overview lists eight enslaved people hanged on 27 August. The swift executions show how colonial justice used punishment to deter resistance, while the system of slavery itself remained...