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Slaves were placed in close quarters, fed barely enough to keep them alive, and oftentimes they fell victim to diseases contracted prior to the voyage. The slaves would not see sunlight during this period. They were prone to both weight loss and scurvy. [22] Slaves in the British colony of Antigua, 1823
Religious, economic, and social factors contributed to the British abolition of slavery throughout their empire.Throughout European colonies in the Caribbean, enslaved people engaged in revolts, labour stoppages and more everyday forms of resistance which enticed colonial authorities, who were eager to create peace and maintain economic stability in the colonies, to consider legislating ...
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 ...
The British Empire and the Second World War (2007) pp 77–96. Kriz, Kay Dian. 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.
It was well into the 19th century before many slaves in the Caribbean were legally free. The trade in slaves was abolished in the British Empire through the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. Slaves in the British Empire continued to remain enslaved, however, until the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
The Baptist War, as it was known, became the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies, [83] lasting 10 days and mobilised as many as 60,000 of Jamaica's 300,000 slave population. [84] The rebellion was suppressed by British forces, under the control of Sir Willoughby Cotton, [85] but the death toll on both sides was high.
In common with most Caribbean countries, slavery in the British Virgin Islands forms a major part of the history of the Territory. One commentator has gone so far as to say: "One of the most important aspects of the History of the British Virgin Islands is slavery."
According to The National Archives (United Kingdom), [2] slavery was conducted as unfree labour in the British Caribbean and North American colonies from the 16th to 19th century. It is believed that the first slave trader was Sir John Hawkins , having conducted voyages in the early 1560's.