This is a study of a unique slave colony and of antislavery conflicts prior to the Emancipation Act of 1833. In their hostility to a booming slave-based sugar economy, abolitionists produced dubious propaganda and quarrelled bitterly, without moderating the cruelty of the slave regime. ...
This article interrogates the notion of the fall of a single "planter class" in the British colonies and argues that in the new slave territories of British Guiana and Trinidad, the slave economy flourished between the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and emancipation in the 1830s. The ...
The Emancipation of the British West Indies was proposed as early as 1787, but was not achieved until the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 (effective 1834). The British were the first to attempt to abolish slavery in the Caribbean during the early 19th century, but complete emancipation took a ...
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OF THE EMANCIPATION OF THE NEGROES, IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, AUGUST 1, 1844. THERE a captive sat in chains, Crooning ditties treasured well From his Afric’s torrid plains. Sole estate his sire bequeathed, – Hapless sire to hapless son, – Was the wailing song he breathed, And his ...
Under the terms of The Charter Act of 1833, the British Parliament revoked the Company’s trade license, which made the Company a part of British governance, but administration of British India remained the responsibility Company officers. The Act also charged the Governor-General-in-Council (to...
These Scottish claimants received compensation for the emancipation of approximately 11% of Jamaica’s enslaved, and correspondingly about 11% of the amount of compensation paid out in relation to Jamaica went to people in Scotland. However, these precise numbers do not account for those Scots who...
In such a global understanding of the history of modernity then the metaphors of bond- age/slavery and Europe's emancipation into an enlightened state clash violently with the material reality of chattel slavery. At a time when the so-called enlightened subject is finding its voice, legally ...
One effect of the early phase of pro- test and the eventual success of the abolitionist campaign with the aboli- tion of the slave trade in 180736 and the eventual passing of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 then was that it enabled the British to imagine themselves as exceptionally modern...
As lord lieutenant ofIreland, Wellesley disappointed the anti-Catholic George IV, and he was about to be removed when his brother, Wellington, was appointedprime minister(January 1828). Wellesley then resigned because his brother was opposed to Roman Catholic emancipation, although the duke was cons...