Grenada newspapers publish a list of fugitives apprehended in 1825

Clause 25 allowed justices to issue warrants to search houses occupied by enslaved people for fugitives or people suspected of sheltering them. Searches could occur by day or night after notice to the...

Clause 28 prohibited enslaved people from beating drums or using other loud instruments for diversion after ten at night, while penalizing owners who knowingly permitted it. Clause 33 separately...

Clause 32 authorized free people to apprehend enslaved people found in St George’s streets between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. unless they were attending an owner or held written permission. Those detained...

Clause 35 criminalized practices officials labeled obeah, including healing or ritual work and possession of listed materials. It grouped spiritual practices with grave threats, allowed severe...

Clause 37 subjected enslaved defendants accused of rebellion, murder, burglary, robbery, arson, and several other serious offenses to the Supreme Court’s criminal process. The court was to assign...

A Grenada act clarified that earlier laws requiring £100 for each manumission had been repealed and that properly proved and registered freedom documents should be accepted in court. The need to...

After court decisions exposed uncertainty in earlier rules, the Assembly made enslaved people competent witnesses for or against other enslaved defendants without requiring registry certificates. This...

The Grenada Free Press and Public Gazette printed an advertisement seeking two boys for purchase and another offering a reward for Thomas, who had escaped from Cape Sale Estate. The notice described...

The Slavery Abolition Act received royal assent. It provided for slavery’s abolition across most British colonies from 1 August 1834, but created an apprenticeship system that compelled many...

The British Slavery Abolition Act took effect. More than 23,600 enslaved people in Grenada were legally reclassified as apprentices, not granted full control over their labour and movement. Field...