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Governor Lionel Smith assents to Jamaica’s act ending apprenticeship

📅 16 Yüni 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...