EVENT INFORMATION

20
Mart
1849

The Clarendon brings liberated Africans from Sierra Leone to Grenada

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📅 20 Mart 1849 📍 Grenada

On 20 March 1849 the Clarendon brought 248 liberated Africans from Sierra Leone to Grenada. These were Africans taken from illegal slave trading and then transported through a British resettlement scheme. On arrival in Grenada they were indentured, largely as plantation laborers, and were not offered passage back to Africa. The term “liberated” therefore describes removal from slave traders, not full freedom of movement or control over work.

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248 liberated Africans

ship’s crew

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Clarendon

Grenada colonial government

Sierra Leone emigration authorities