French Convention abolishes slavery in French colonies

The Enterprize reached Grenada with 319 captive people, according to its voyage history. This was one of the voyages that continued despite decades of resistance and mounting abolitionist pressure....

The 1825 consolidation identifies an earlier Grenada act, passed on this date, as a measure intended to prevent the further increase of free Black and mixed-race people. The title exposes a colonial...

The Bud arrived at Grenada with 243 people recorded as disembarked after embarking 264. The difference in the surviving figures documents a portion of the human cost of the Middle Passage. The...

The Aeolus arrived with 295 of the 302 captive people recorded as embarked. The seven-person difference is represented in the database as mortality during the voyage. Behind the statistic were...

The Old Dick arrived with 344 of the 349 people recorded as embarked. It had gathered captives at Loango. The shipping data counts those who survived to disembark but cannot restore the names,...

On a later voyage, the Old Dick arrived at Grenada after taking people at Loango. The record reports 350 embarked and 344 landed. The repeated use of the same vessel shows how commercial networks...

Julien Fédon and allied French-speaking free people, alongside enslaved participants, launched coordinated attacks on Gouyave and Grenville. Historians describe the uprising as a revolt against...

On 5 March 1795, acting governor Kenneth Mackenzie issued a bilingual proclamation offering amnesty to rebels who had not committed murder and threatening punishment to those who resisted. The...

British forces attacked Fédon’s fortified camp at Belvedere. The attack failed. Local historian John Angus Martin records that rebels subsequently executed more than 40 British hostages, including...

On 7 June 1796 Grenada’s assembly enacted a law for trying enslaved people suspected of involvement in the ongoing rebellion. It distinguished people said to have acted willingly from those said to...