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Governor Lionel Smith assents to Jamaica’s act ending apprenticeship

đź“… 16 June 1838

On 16 June 1838, Governor Lionel Smith assented to an act passed by Jamaica’s Council and Assembly to end praedial apprenticeship from 1 August. He described it as the total abolition of praedial...