Fedon’s Rebellion

Written By The Yaad

In March of 1795, a French free coloured, Julien Fédon, would lead a revolt against the white British elites on the island of Grenada. Inspired by the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution and activities happening in Guadeloupe; for the next 16 months Fédon would range a battle against the English colonisers. At the end of the uprising, at least 7000 of the Grenadians enslaves were killed along with over 1000 Europeans and free coloured; and wide destruction of property. Even though the Fedon Rebellion was not successful in its mission to overthrow British colonisation in Grenada, the rebellion would be one of the most important events that led to emancipation of enslaves in the anglophone Caribbean in 1838; and also start a revolutionary tradition in Grenada.

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

  • Belvidere Estate - Fedon's House Voices from the Past by Herman G. Hall

  • Caribbean Slave Revolts and the British Abolitionist Movement by Gelien Matthews

  • Grenada: The Peaceful Revolution by Catherine Sunshine and Philip Wheaton

  • Free Coloreds in the Slave Societies of St. Kitts and Grenada, 1763-1833  by Edward L. Cox

  • Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies by Michael Craton

  • The Jacobins of Mt. Qua-Qua: Fedon's Rebellion in Grenada, 1762-1796 by Curtis Michael Jacobs

  • The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795–1815 by Kit Candlin

ACADEMIC PAPERS

  • Emplaced Myths of Fédon’s Rebellion in Tourism Representations by Velvet Nelson

  • Fedon's Rebellion1795-96: Causes And Consequences by Edward L. Cox

  • A Reassertion of Rights: Fedon’s Rebellion, Grenada, 1795-96 by Tessa Murphy

  • The Role of the Enslaved in the ‘Fedon Rebellion’ of 1795 by Kit Candlin

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