The Act scheduled emancipation across most British colonies and authorized up to £20 million in compensation for enslavers, while formerly enslaved people received no compensation. Apprenticeship requirements initially restricted the freedom of many emancipated people. The Act is essential to a decolonial history of reparation because state material redress protected property claims rooted in slavery rather than repairing enslaved people and their descendants.
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Who received Britain’s £20 million compensation under the 1833 abolition law?
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The law compensated slaveholders; formerly enslaved people received no comparable payment.
The British Slavery Abolition Act directed its £20 million compensation to formerly enslaved people.
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The money was authorized for slaveholders; formerly enslaved people received no comparable payment.