The Bud delivers captive people to Grenada

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 Duke of Buccleugh reached Grenada after taking people at the Sierra Leone estuary and Bance Island. The reconstruction records 373 embarked, 365 reaching the island, and 358 landed. These separate...

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...

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....

The King Grey arrived at Grenada with 170 captive people taken at Cape Grand Mount, according to the voyage reconstruction. Recording the arrival makes a dated link between a West African...

The King Grey arrived at Grenada with 240 enslaved people, according to the ship’s voyage history. This is one of several recorded voyages by the vessel to the island, showing how repeated voyages...