📅 25 Oktober 1858
A proposal to abolish slavery in Suriname was presented to the Dutch parliament on 25 October 1858. Its title linked emancipation to ensuring an adequate supply of immigrant contract workers. This...
📅 15 November 1661
A Jamaican act made enslaved Africans and servants liable to punishment for leaving a plantation without written permission. It treated ordinary movement as an offense against an owner’s authority and...
📅 2 November 1664
The code required written tickets for travel, prescribed punishments for resistance, and treated enslaved people as inheritable property. The archive notes that it closely copied Barbados’s 1661...
📅 5 Mei 1838
On 5 May 1838, the ship Whitby brought the first Indian indentured workers to British Guiana, landing at Highbury in Berbice. The National Trust also names the Hesperus in its account of the first...
📅 1 Augustus 1838
On 1 August 1838, apprenticeship ended in British Guiana and formerly enslaved people became legally free. Their freedom followed generations of resistance and the 1834 protests against continued...
📅 25 Maart 1807
On 25 March 1807, the British Parliament passed the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The act prohibited British participation in the transatlantic slave trade, but it did not abolish...
📅 1 Augustus 1838
On 1 August 1838, apprenticeship ended and full legal emancipation took effect in Trinidad, two years before the originally scheduled end of the longest apprenticeship terms in much of the British...
📅 26 Maart 1812
On 26 March 1812, an Order in Council established compulsory registration of enslaved people in Trinidad, the first such registry in the British West Indies. Plantation owners had to report enslaved...
📅 13 December 1679
Indigenous fighters burn a house and sugar works; the following day a provision ground is also attacked. These actions affect both colonial production and food supplies. The reports describe damage,...
