The Brothers delivers captives to Grenada

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...

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...

The Hudibras reached Grenada after a voyage from Calabar. The database-based record reports 360 people embarked, 350 landed, and an insurrection aboard, although it does not date the resistance within...

A transatlantic voyage record for the King Grey reports 251 enslaved people landed at Grenada. Such records make routes and scale visible, but the surviving database is built mainly from the papers of...

The Liverpool vessel Little Joe arrived at Grenada with 301 captive people after gathering them on the Windward Coast. Its return to Liverpool was recorded after sale in the Caribbean. The entry...

The Bloom reached Grenada with 246 captive people after sailing from Africa. The voyage record cited in later scholarship connects the vessel to British trading interests. A count of arrivals...