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Formerly enslaved people end apprenticeship practices in Trinidad, 1832-1838

Country
Trinidad and Tobago
Time period
May, 1832 to August, 1838
Classification
Change
Cluster
Economic Justice
Human Rights
Democracy
Total points
7 out of 10 points
Name of researcher, and date dd/mm/yyyy
Alex Frye, 06/05/2011

By 1830 the enslaved people in the “West Indian” colonies of the British Empire understood that slavery, as an institution, was about to fall. White abolitionists in Britain and around the world had been pushing legislation through the Parliament that would free all the enslaved in British colonies, and in 1833 the British government passed the Emancipation Bill and announced that it would bring an end to the practice of slavery beginning August 1, 1834.