Treaty restores Grenada to British rule

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...

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 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...

The Brothers arrived at Grenada with 253 enslaved people and landed 248, according to the ship-history reconstruction based on shipping and voyage records. The figures make the violence of forced...

The Alexander brought 350 captive people to Grenada; 342 were recorded as landed. Bristol merchants’ agent records later listed the sale of those survivors. The ship’s surgeon was Alexander...