Grenada confirms enslaved people may testify in cases involving other enslaved people

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 February 11 issue of the St George’s Chronicle printed a list covering runaways apprehended by the Rangers from August through December 1825. Historian Heather Freund uses the list alongside other...

A Grenada act clarified that earlier laws requiring £100 for each manumission had been repealed and that properly proved and registered freedom documents should be accepted in court.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

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...

A letter published in the St George’s Chronicle described the Loyal Black Rangers as an armed police force used to arrest runaways and uphold slaveholders’ authority. This is a retrospective...

A colonial return dated 14 October 1836 records Africans seized from the Negrinha and Phoenix. The ships carried people being trafficked despite Britain’s 1807 trade ban. Officials used the label...