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The Baptist War, as it was known, became the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies, [83] lasting 10 days and mobilised as many as 60,000 of Jamaica's 300,000 slave population. [ 84 ] The rebellion was suppressed by British forces, under the control of Sir Willoughby Cotton , [ 85 ] but the death toll on both sides was high.
Pages in category "Slavery in the British West Indies" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... Emancipation of the British West Indies; F.
The society started with a predominantly Jamaican leadership, but by the 1830s, as emancipation approached, the leadership came to include a broader ranger of planter interests from across the British West Indies. [5] The society evolved into the West India Committee.
Joseph Sturge (2 August 1793 – 14 May 1859) was an English Quaker, abolitionist and activist. He founded the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (now Anti-Slavery International ). He worked throughout his life in Radical political actions supporting pacifism , working-class rights, and the universal emancipation of slaves .
The West India Interest lobbied on behalf of the Caribbean sugar trade in Britain during the late eighteenth century. [ 1 ] Beginning in the 17th century, Caribbean colonies appointed paid lobbyists, who were called colonial agents, to act on behalf of the legislatures in the colonies.
Fox's support for immediate revolutionary emancipation was unusual among 18th-century observers of New World slavery. Leading historian of slavery and abolition David Brion Davis, in his 1962 article "The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought," observes, "if immediatism [support for the immediate abolition of slavery] was at least latent in early antislavery ...
This article covers the history of Antigua and Barbuda from emancipation in 1833 until the British Leeward Islands were federalized in the early 1870s. During this era, the economy was significantly reformed, and many Afro-Antiguan villages were established.
1 August, Emancipation Day in Jamaica is a public holiday and part of a week-long cultural celebration, during which Jamaicans also celebrate Jamaica Independence Day on 6 August 1962. Both 1 August and 6 August are public holidays. Emancipation Day had stopped being observed as a nation holiday in 1962 at the time of independence. [24]