Public executions continue on 9 July

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...

On 30 June 1796, Catholic priest Pascal Mardel was among forty-seven prisoners brought before the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The court asked why execution should not be awarded; a jury found 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...

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...

The day after the 26 September executions, public executions of insurgents continued on 27 September 1796. Recording the consecutive dates makes visible a sustained wave of state violence rather...

A further public execution date recorded by historians is 12 October 1796. The process of punishment extended months beyond the end of open hostilities in June, while other prisoners remained in...

The Assembly made escape or absence from confinement for 48 hours a felony for enslaved people sentenced to banishment or hard labour in chains, with death among the possible punishments. The law also...