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23
Ougùstùs
1791

Grenada renews its special trial law for enslaved defendants

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📅 23 Ougùstùs 1791 📍 Grenada

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 responses that disappeared after a single crisis. The surviving legislative archive records the state’s concern with “public tranquillity”; read against enslaved people’s actions, the measure also documents persistent resistance to bondage.

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