Grenada’s 1825 act directs enslavers to arrange Christian instruction

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...

Clause 5 allowed two enslaved people belonging to the same owner to marry through an authorized clergyman or priest, but required written permission from that owner. Clergy were also to judge...

Clause 6 required each plantation to maintain a hospital in a suitable, healthy location for enslaved people who were sick, injured, or infirm. An “hospital-book” was to record names, admission and...

Clause 7 prohibited compelling most enslaved plantation workers to leave home before daybreak, work through breakfast or dinner, or continue after sunset. It allowed an exception for production...

Clause 8 gave a woman with five living children attached to a plantation fifty-two days during the year to cultivate provision grounds. Its stated purpose was to encourage the increase and...

Clause 9 forbade owners from turning away enslaved people considered unable to work because of illness, age, or infirmity. Owners had to keep and support them; magistrates could investigate neglect...