The Eliza arrives at Grenada with 252 captives

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...

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 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...

The Aeolus arrived with 295 of the 302 captive people recorded as embarked. The seven-person difference is represented in the database as mortality during the voyage. Behind the statistic were...

The Old Dick arrived with 344 of the 349 people recorded as embarked. It had gathered captives at Loango. The shipping data counts those who survived to disembark but cannot restore the names,...