Treaty of Paris transfers Grenada to Britain

A manuscript history of Grenada records Jacques Dyel du Parquet’s purchase of the island in Paris on 27 September 1650. French settlement and plantation expansion later relied on enslaved African...

A contemporary French drawing in the Metropolitan Museum is titled “Arrival of the comte d’Estaing at the Island of Grenada, July 3, 1779.” The French expedition took the island from Britain the...

French forces captured Grenada during the American War of Independence. Enslaved people remained subject to plantation discipline under the restored French administration; the contest between European...

The peace settlement ending the American War of Independence restored Grenada to Britain. For enslaved Grenadians, the transfer changed the colonial power but preserved the legal and economic system...

The Bristol vessel Sally reached Grenada after taking captives at Bonny. A ship-history reconstruction gives a conflicting total of 380 or 410 people delivered, so this entry does not treat one figure...

The Brothers reached Grenada with 180 enslaved people; the voyage reconstruction reports 179 disembarked. This difference shows that arrival and disembarkation totals are not interchangeable. The...