French fleet arrives during the capture of Grenada

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...

The Treaty of Paris ceded Grenada and the Grenadines to Great Britain. The change in imperial rule did not end slavery: Britain inherited and expanded a plantation society in which enslaved Africans...

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...

The Sally reached Grenada with 448 captive people taken at Bonny; 443 were recorded as landed. The five-person difference is reported by the voyage history, but the record should not be read as a...