Effecting freedom: From slave quarters to own homes - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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Effecting freedom: From slave quarters to own homes - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Dr Rita Pemberton In 1838, when the law mandating the termination of the apprenticeship system and the start of full emancipation from August 1, 1838, was passed, there was no clearly identifiable route to effect the emancipation of the formerly enslaved Africans who had laboured ad nauseum under the slave system. In Tobago, the planters who openly opposed the law remained in control of the island’s Assembly and Council. They were determined to …
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