Grenada allocates public money to purchase Sergeant Mitchel’s freedom

Grenada’s registry law required slaveholders to submit names, ages, colour, African or Creole designation, identifying marks, and estate information for enslaved people. The initial returns were due...

A Grenada law passed on 27 July 1818 reaffirmed a £100 payment attached to manumission. The later 1826 law notes this measure while repealing the payment. Manumission remained a constrained route to...

A list issue cited in historian Heather Freund’s study records enslaved people apprehended by the Loyal Black Rangers. The wider set of lists names many individuals and records claimed owners and...

A second issue cited in the published study carried a list of runaways apprehended by the Loyal Black Rangers. The repeated publication of such returns shows that escape was persistent enough to...

A notice in the St George’s Chronicle responded to an earlier fugitive list that named a woman as Jacline, said she belonged to Lataste Estate, and had been captured at nearby River Sallee. A...

A list covering June 1819 was published in the December 15 issue of the St George’s Chronicle. It recorded Bob as escaping from Francis La Barrie and being captured at Woodford Estate. The original...

The June 1819 runaway list, published on December 15, named a man called John as coming from “Plaisants” and being captured above Silver Arm Estate in St Patrick Parish. The historian notes several...

A consolidated Grenada slave law dated 26 April 1825 assembled rules governing the enslaved population, including policing, punishment, provision, and restrictions on movement. Although its title used...

Clause 2 required plantation owners to allot land suited to growing provisions, allow twenty-eight working days between May and January for cultivation, and provide food, clothing, bedding, and...

Clause 3 allowed an enslaved person’s complaint—or information from another person—to trigger a justice’s inquiry into food, clothing, housing, and treatment. Justices could inspect an estate and...