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Emancipation law begins, and enslaved people reject apprenticeship

📅 1 August 1834

On 1 August 1834, the British Slavery Abolition Act took effect in Trinidad. Children under six were freed, while most adults were placed in an apprenticeship system that compelled them to continue...