The King Grey reaches Grenada from Cape Grand Mount

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....

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...

The Assembly continued the 1789 criminal-trial law for another two years and beyond until replacement legislation. This renewal shows that exceptional courts and policing were not temporary...

The Eliza arrived at Grenada with 252 captive people, after taking people at the Îles de Los. The ship-history account also records the deaths and turnover among the crew, a reminder that the...

The Enterprize reached Grenada with 319 captive people, according to its voyage history. This was one of the voyages that continued despite decades of resistance and mounting abolitionist pressure....

The 1825 consolidation identifies an earlier Grenada act, passed on this date, as a measure intended to prevent the further increase of free Black and mixed-race people. The title exposes a colonial...