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Slavery Emancipation Debates on Apprenticeship and Compensation
In the long Lords and Commons sessions debate over apprenticeship and compensation tied to emancipation in the Caribbean colonies. Speakers condemn the plan as favoring planters, warn of insurrection, and argue for or against wages, duration limits, and local versus Parliament control. Text references Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Cape tasks, with estimates of slave values and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Buxton
Canning
House of Commons
West India
John Ellice
Bilice
Keith Douglas
England
John Keene
Jemaica
St Bonings
Jamal Hich
Bert
Christman
Buckra
Cape of Good Hope
Barrow
George Murray
Cat River
Dominions
Scotland
Cape
Stanley Rose
Mr. Stanley
Stanley
Jamaica
Barbadoes
Trinidad
Alyman
Fryer
Englan
Macauley
Spain
Ware
Lord Sandown
Lord Howick
Ain
Howick
House
Weymouth
Leeds
O'Connell
Lord Althorp
Sevasion
Mr. O'Connell
Kr. O'Connell
Drost
Shylock
Cheera
Bernal
Opiniog
St. Vincent’s
Coventry
Hayti
Jrpaimen
E.L. Bulwer
Rotch