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Apprenticeship ends and full legal emancipation is proclaimed in Jamaica

📅 1 Ougùstùs 1838

The remaining apprenticeship system ended in Jamaica, bringing legal freedom to people still bound to plantation labor after 1834. Communities gathered in Spanish Town to hear Governor Lionel Smith...