On 20 September 1837, commissioners George Gordon and John Daughtrey opened public proceedings at Brown’s Town, St Ann. Governor Lionel Smith had commissioned an inquiry into the administration of the post-emancipation apprenticeship law, particularly allegations in James Williams’s account of forced labor and punishment. The proceedings heard apprentices and other witnesses and later confirmed central claims in Williams’s narrative. This inquiry took place under colonial authority and within apprenticeship, a system that kept many formerly enslaved people bound to plantation labor after legal emancipation.
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Where did the commission open its public proceedings on 20 September 1837?
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The proceedings say the commissioners began at Brown’s Town in St Ann.