📅 28 August 1833
The Act legislated emancipation across most British colonies, with a transition period that compelled many formerly enslaved people to continue labouring as apprentices. The British state...
📅 25 March 1807
The British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act, prohibiting British subjects from participating in the transatlantic slave trade. The measure restricted the forced transport of Africans into...
📅 1 January 1808
The British trade ban took effect, ending legal British participation in the transatlantic slave trade. In Jamaica, this did not end slavery or plantation labor. Enslaved people continued to be...
📅 28 August 1833
The Slavery Abolition Act received royal assent, setting a legal timetable for emancipation across most British colonies. The act did not bring immediate full freedom for most Jamaican adults: it...
