EVENT INFORMATION

1
Augustus
1838

The apprenticeship system ends in British colonies

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📅 1 Augustus 1838 📍 Caribbean, Verenigd Koninkrijk

The compulsory apprenticeship system ended early following resistance, criticism, and political pressure. Ending it removed a major restriction on formerly enslaved people’s work. Plantation power over land and wages remained, so the end of forced labor opened rather than completed struggles for economic justice.

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