Ok so i've been wanting to get back into doing history threads. I am going to attempt The Slavery Abolition Act. I wanted to do the research b4 hand BUT be patient this will be real time

Ah the year 2015... We had Hotline Bling, Adele dropped 25, Empire premiered, Fifty Shades of blaay was in theatres and Britain just finished paying back a loan they took out to pay slave owners in order to fully abolish Slavery & ting...

Slavery had been abolished in England in 1772 by and Britain had outlawed the slave trade with the Slave Trade Act in 1807. The penalty for captains smuggling slaves was around 100pound a head ... Big $ during that time

Slavery was still a lucrative industry to mans dem didn't stop. So the Royal navy set up a squad "West Africa Squadron" WAS for short. That still didn't work captains would just throw slaves overboard if they were about to get caught. No face no case type a ting

Stick w/ me i'm giving you some back story. Anywho Slavery was still going on and 1823 the anti slavery society was founded (look them up) they wanted slaves to be viewed as humans & tings but still slavery continued.

Anyways here enters Jamaica (long time we a tun up the scheme) in 1831 a large-scale slave revolt in Jamaica known as the Baptist War broke out BIG UP mans like Samuel Sharpe! The british owners never pet nor powder & were ruthless in squashing the rebellion

They were SO ruthless BRITAIN held 2 inquiries and The results of these inquiries contributed greatly to the abolition of slavery with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

Now... You might be thinking that the abolition of slavery meant that slaves could pack up their ... well jut leave... right? WRONG .. The SAA had an apprenticeship clause ...

apprenticeship was applied to the stage between slavery & freedom. The idea was that the slaves were 'learning' how to be free. They worked as before for their former owner, for three-quarters of their time & could work for others for the rest of the week 4 a little $

Trinidad was w/ the shits & On 1 August 1834, an unarmed group of mainly elderly people being addressed by the Governor at Government House in Port of Spain, Trinidad, about the new laws, began chanting: “Pas de six ans. Point de six ans” (“Not six years. No six years”)

They continued the peaceful protests until Full emancipation for all was legally granted ahead of schedule on 1 August 1838, making Trinidad the first British colony with slaves to completely abolish slavery.

Ok so the Slavery Abolition Act included the right of compensation for slave-owners who would be losing their property. The amount of money to be spent on the compensation claims was set at “the Sum of Twenty Millions Pounds Sterling.

For example, Henry Phillpotts (then the Bishop of Exeter), in a partnership with three business colleagues, received £12,700 for 665 slaves. In all, the government paid out over 40,000 separate awards. The £20 million fund was 40% of the government’s total annual expenditure.

It's fair to mention the Act did not “extend to any of the Territories in the Possession of the East India Company, or to the Island of Ceylon, or to the Island of Saint Helena