The Maidstone lands Indian indentured workers at Irwin’s Bay

A letter dated 5 May 1848 concerning emigration from St Helena described policy that cut rations to encourage liberated Africans to leave for the Caribbean. The people concerned had been freed from...

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...

A nominal list of liberated Africans embarked on the Brandon was transmitted on 2 December 1849. Such lists turned people into administrative entries as they were moved from Sierra Leone toward...

On 25 January 1850 the Atlantic approached St George’s, carrying liberated Africans from Sierra Leone. Shantel George’s study traces the arrival through John Candler’s account: earlier recaptives...

The Maidstone sailed from Calcutta on 27 January 1857 with Indian workers contracted for Grenada’s plantations. Their recruitment took place after emancipation as planters sought a controlled labor...

On 17 July 1860 the Tartar arrived in St George’s with 92 liberated Africans from Central Africa, one of whom had died during the voyage. These Africans had been seized from slave traders and sent...

The Barbara Campbell left St Helena for Grenada on 22 May 1863 with African recaptives under an emigration and indenture scheme. A Cambridge study identifies this as the last ship to bring liberated...

A dispatch dated 3 July 1863 reported that five Africans died at sea aboard the Barbara Campbell. The ship had carried recaptives from St Helena toward Grenada; the surgeon said some sick people had...

On 29 April 2009 Grenada’s government designated 1 May as Indian Arrival Day, to be observed alongside Labour Day. The commemoration recognizes the arrival of Indian indentured workers and the...

On 2 May 2009 a ceremony at La Fortune Junction, St Patrick, commemorated the Maidstone’s landing and unveiled a plaque; the route to the site was renamed Maidstone Road. The plaque records that 287...