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Abolition Debates and Apprenticeship Controversy in Jamaica
Debates in the British House on emancipation for West India slaves center on apprenticeship, compensation to planters, and the risk of insurrection. Speakers clash over seven to twelve year apprenticeship, wages, and local colonial control, arguing for or against compensation and central authority while warning of upheaval, hunger, and economic collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Buxton
Friends
Mr. Canning
House of Commons
West India
Westodians
John Ellice
Keith Douglas
England
John Keene
Nore
Jamaica
St. Hyontinga
Hilton
Buckra
Zoel
Cape of Good Hope
Barrow
George Murray
Cat River
Scotland
Cape
Stanley Rose
Mr. Stanley
Stanley
Awain
Eac
Barbadoes
Trinidad
G Ontleman
Fryer
Geremnad
Macauley
Gentleman
Lord Landon
Lord Howick
Weymouth
Leeds
O'Connell
Althorp