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The emancipation of the British West Indies refers to the abolition of slavery in Britain's colonies in the West Indies during the 1830s. The British government passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, which emancipated all slaves in the British West Indies. After emancipation, a system of apprenticeship was established, where emancipated ...
William Wilberforce's Slave Trade Act 1807 abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. It was not until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that the institution finally was abolished, but on a gradual basis. Since land owners in the British West Indies were losing their unpaid labourers, they received compensation totalling £20 million. [84]
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, abolishing slavery throughout most of the British Empire but on a gradual basis over the next six years. [113] Legally frees 700,000 in the West Indies , 20,000 in Mauritius , and 40,000 in South Africa .
1833: British abolish slavery in the West Indies; The owners are reimbursed. 1834: Beginning of the Boers' Great Trek. 1839: Papal Encyclical In Supremo Apostolatus, condemning the slave trade. 1839–1842: First Opium War and First Anglo-Afghan War. 1846–1848: Mexican–American War, which results in the Mexican Cession.
Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement: picturing the British West Indies, 1700–1840 (Paul Mellon Centre, 2008), art history. Mawby, Spencer. Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947–69 (Springer, 2012). Pitman, Frank Wesley. The Development of the British West Indies: 1700–1763 (Routledge, 2019).
"The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth...the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery." 200th anniversary of the British act of parliament abolishing slave trading, commemorated on a British two pound coin.
In 1833, Grenada became part of the British Windward Islands Administration and remained so until 1958. British operated slavery was abolished in 1834, but the last enslaved African descendants were eventually freed in 1838. Nutmeg was introduced in 1843, when a merchant ship called in on its way to England from the East Indies. [27]
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were the territories in the West Indies under British rule, including Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada ...