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 imposed an apprenticeship system, and it directed £20 million in compensation to enslavers rather than those whose labor had created the wealth. The law followed enslaved people's resistance, including the Jamaican Baptist War, alongside abolitionist organizing and political change in Britain.
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Who received the £20 million compensation authorized by Britain's 1833 abolition law?
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The compensation went to slaveholders, not to the people whose coerced labor produced the wealth.