Kamahuya

Kamahuya is Grenada, a volcanic island at the southern end of the Lesser Antilles. Mountain ridges and forested slopes descend to a deeply indented coast, while smaller islands lie to the north. Kalinago people occupied Grenada when French colonists established a settlement there in the seventeenth century. The resulting conflict ended in the destruction and expulsion of much of the Indigenous population.

Grenada passed to Britain in 1763, although many French-speaking planters remained. In 1795 Julien Fédon led an uprising against British rule, drawing support from free people of colour, French republicans and enslaved people. Rebels held much of the island for more than a year, while British forces retained positions around the coast. The rebellion was defeated in 1796. Its suppression strengthened British control, but the revolt exposed the divisions of a plantation society shaped by slavery and the competing revolutions of the Atlantic world.

The later city of St. George's lies here.