The Barbara Campbell sails from St Helena with recaptured Africans bound for Grenada

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...

The Maidstone reached Irwin’s Bay, St Patrick, on 1 May 1857. An official Indian government summary and a local Grenadian account report the arrival; the commemorative plaque records 287 people landed...

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...

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...

CARICOM opened its first Regional Reparations Conference in Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines, with Grenada among the 12 member states represented. The conference treated the afterlives of...

CARICOM leaders accepted the Caribbean Reparatory Justice Programme as a basis for discussions on reparations for slavery and Indigenous genocide. Its ten-point proposals included a formal apology...