The King Grey lands 240 people at Grenada

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 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 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...

The Bud arrived at Grenada with 243 people recorded as disembarked after embarking 264. The difference in the surviving figures documents a portion of the human cost of the Middle Passage. The...