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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Diana Paton
• Matthew J. Smith

Titel

Apprenticeship and Its Conflicts

Ist Teil von

• The Jamaica Reader, 2021, p.147

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• An 1833 British act of Parliament abolishing slavery came into effect on 1 August 1834. Enslaved people did not immediately become free. Instead, slavery was replaced by a system known as apprenticeship, in which those who had been enslaved were required to work for their former owners for 40.5 hours a week without pay. The most significant change was that estate managers were not allowed to use physical violence against apprentices, but had to call on a newly created set of officials known as stipendiary magistrates to determine punishments. The system produced many conflicts, as apprentices tried to defend their