Grenada designates Indian Arrival Day

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...

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 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...

On Emancipation Day, the Grenada National Reparations Committee issued a statement linking the commemoration of emancipation to the unfinished pursuit of reparatory justice. The statement placed the...

Wee FM reported that the Grenada National Reparations Committee would host a forum on 27 February with the Trevelyan family, descendants of plantation owners who had enslaved more than 1,000...