EVENT INFORMATION

3
Yüli
1863

A colonial dispatch reports deaths aboard the Barbara Campbell

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📅 3 Yüli 1863 📍 Grenada

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 been taken directly from hospital to fill the vessel’s passenger complement. This record exposes a contradiction in imperial “liberation”: the people were removed from slave traders but their welfare and consent remained subordinate to the labor-transfer scheme.

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African recaptives aboard the Barbara Campbell

ship’s surgeon

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Barbara Campbell

colonial authorities in St Helena and Barbados