EVENT INFORMATION

7
Juni
1796

The state values condemned people as property and pays owners

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📅 7 Juni 1796 📍 Grenada

Clause VII required a court and jury to value a person sentenced to death, banishment, or chain labor at up to £100 according to trade or occupation, and authorized public payment of that amount to the owner. People sentenced to banishment or chain labor then became “the property of the public.” The law compensated enslavers for state punishment of enslaved people and preserved property language even at the point of transfer.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Enslaved people sentenced under the act

enslavers

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Special courts

Grenada Public Treasurer