Grenada votes to end apprenticeship early

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...

The Slavery Abolition Act received royal assent. It provided for slavery’s abolition across most British colonies from 1 August 1834, but created an apprenticeship system that compelled many...

The British Slavery Abolition Act took effect. More than 23,600 enslaved people in Grenada were legally reclassified as apprentices, not granted full control over their labour and movement. Field...

A letter published in the St George’s Chronicle described the Loyal Black Rangers as an armed police force used to arrest runaways and uphold slaveholders’ authority. This is a retrospective...

A colonial return dated 14 October 1836 records Africans seized from the Negrinha and Phoenix. The ships carried people being trafficked despite Britain’s 1807 trade ban. Officials used the label...

The apprenticeship system ended in Grenada and formerly enslaved people gained legal freedom. Emancipation did not redistribute plantation land or undo the wealth transferred to owners through...

A letter dated 5 May 1848 concerning emigration from St Helena described policy that cut rations to encourage liberated Africans to leave for the Caribbean. The people concerned had been freed from...

On 20 March 1849 the Clarendon brought 248 liberated Africans from Sierra Leone to Grenada. These were Africans taken from illegal slave trading and then transported through a British resettlement...

A nominal list of liberated Africans embarked on the Brandon was transmitted on 2 December 1849. Such lists turned people into administrative entries as they were moved from Sierra Leone toward...

On 25 January 1850 the Atlantic approached St George’s, carrying liberated Africans from Sierra Leone. Shantel George’s study traces the arrival through John Candler’s account: earlier recaptives...