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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 slaves were required by the various colonial assemblies to continue working for their former masters for a period of four to six years in ...
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).
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 ...
Mariana of Austria, serving as regent, freed all the Indigenous slaves in Peru who had been captured in Chile. [37] After receiving a plea from the Pope, she also freed the slaves of the southern Andes. [55] On 12 June 1679, Charles II issued a general declaration freeing all Indigenous slaves in Spanish America. But despite these royal decrees ...
British laborers made products specifically designed for trade along the West African coast. One such item was a two-foot copper rod, designed for winding around arms and legs.
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]
This act extended to the Caribbean plantations under British control. Without the labor influx of slaves through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the system became harder to maintain. Years later, in 1838, more than half a million people in the Caribbean were emancipated from slavery as a result of the 1833 Emancipation Bill. [14]
Pages in category "Slavery in the British West Indies" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.