what part of africa did grenadians come from
Afro-Grenadian More than half a century later, when Grenada was captured by the British during the Seven Years' War (1762) and formally ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Paris, the English began the import their own African slaves for use on their cotton, sugar and tobacco plantations.[5] It is believed that most the slaves imported to Grenada embarked from Nigeria (specifically Igbo and Yoruba,[6] more than 37,000, 34% of the slaves of the island[7]) and Ghana[8][9] (Fante people,[10] more than 18,000, 19% of the slaves of the island[7]). To a lesser extent, slaves were also were imported from Senegambia (more than 5,000, 4.9% of the slaves of the island[7]), Guinea,[11] Sierra Leone (more than 12,000, 11% of the slaves of the island), Windward Coast (more than 14,000, 13% of the slaves of the island), Bight of Benin (more than 5,800, 5,4% of the slaves of the island),[7] Congo (specifically Kongos) and Angola.[6] The slaves of Central Africa numbered more than 12,000 people, 11% of the slaves of Grenada.[7] Many of the slaves were also Mandinka. The first British census of Grenada, in 1700, recorded 525 slaves and 53 freed slaves living on the island. Julien Fédon, a mulatto plantation owner of the Belvedere estate in the St. John Parish, led a violent rebellion against British rule on the night of 2 March 1795. Clearly influenced by the ideas emerging from the French Revolution, especially the Convention's abolition of slavery in 1794, Fédon and his troops took control of all of Grenada (except the parish of St. George's, the seat of government), who afterwards freed the slaves who participated in the rebellion. The struggle of the slaves for their rights continued for a year and a half (between March 1795 and June 1796), until the British regained control of the island. The British, as a punishment for disobedience and rebellion, executed the alleged leaders of the rebellion, however Fédon was never captured. Slavery in Grenada was finally abolished by a British law in 1834,[12] and all slaves were freed by 1 August 1838.[13]