Apprenticeship ends and full emancipation takes effect

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...

On 25 May 1838 Grenada’s legislature voted to end apprenticeship before its scheduled term. Apprenticeship had followed the 1834 legal abolition of slavery and compelled formerly enslaved people to...

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...

The Maidstone sailed from Calcutta on 27 January 1857 with Indian workers contracted for Grenada’s plantations. Their recruitment took place after emancipation as planters sought a controlled labor...