Pascal Mardel and forty-six others appear before the special court

Clause II directed people sentenced to hard labor in chains to clear the interior woods and make roads across Grenada, under overseers and a sufficient guard paid at public expense. The provision...

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...

Captain Jossey, representing the French forces in Grenada, signed articles of capitulation at Gouyave with British Major-General Oliver Nicolls. British accounts say the agreement ended rebel...

British forces captured the remaining rebel strongholds and ended open hostilities in Fédon’s Rebellion. Enslaved and free rebels faced death, capture, execution, or deportation in the repression that...

The Grenada Court of Oyer and Terminer opened in St George’s on 27 June 1796 to process people named in an act of attainder. Because the attainder had already declared the named people guilty, the...

After forty-seven prisoners were sentenced, Governor Alexander Houston declined to execute all of them at once and selected fourteen he considered “most notorious” for execution on 1 July 1796. The...

Pascal Mardel, a Roman Catholic priest and participant in the rebellion, was among the first seven of the fourteen selected for execution on 1 July 1796. They were publicly hanged at the Market...

Historical scholarship identifies 9 July 1796 as another date on which insurgents were publicly executed after the collapse of Fédon’s campaign. This record marks the continuation of colonial...

On 25 July 1796, eight insurgents—three white men and five free men of color—were publicly executed in St George’s. At the same time, other insurgents who avoided execution remained confined on...

Tessa Murphy’s study records another public execution date, 26 September 1796, as colonial authorities continued punishing insurgents after the rebellion. The surviving summary identifies the date but...