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Brown’s Town inquiry

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Brown’s Town inquiry

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A public commission begins investigating apprenticeship abuses in St Ann

📅 20 September 1837

On 20 September 1837, commissioners George Gordon and John Daughtrey opened public proceedings at Brown’s Town, St Ann. Governor Lionel Smith had commissioned an inquiry into the administration of the...