The Duke of Buccleugh lands survivors at Grenada

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...

The Martha arrived at Grenada with 227 enslaved people after taking captives at the Sierra Leone estuary. The voyage record reconstruction reports 245 embarked. The gap points to deaths during...

The Liverpool ship Bud arrived at Grenada from Cape Grand Mount with 159 enslaved people. This voyage formed part of a commercial system linking British merchants, African coastal trading sites,...

A Grenada law required enslaved men found in St George’s between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. to carry an illuminated lantern, written permission, or accompany an enslaver. The rule made ordinary movement in the...

The legislature required owners of canoes, boats, and pettyaugers to obtain licenses and provide financial security against their use in escapes or removals of enslaved people. The preamble explicitly...

A Grenada law authorized a justice of the peace and four freeholders to try enslaved people accused of serious crimes, with hearings convened rapidly and capital sentences carried out immediately....