Porus3/31/2024 ![]() ![]() On December 1849, Thomas Carlyle published “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question” in Fraser’s Magazine the article was later republished in his Critical and Miscellaneous Essays as “On the Nigger Question.” Image: Photograph of Thomas Carlyle, circa 1860s, by Eliott & Fry. Michie, "On the Sacramental Test Act, the Catholic Relief Act, the Slavery Abolition Act, and the Factory Act" Image: the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Image: The Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Act outlawed slavery throughout the British Empire Britain’s colonial slaves were officially emancipated on 1 August 1834 when the law came into force, although most entered a form of obligatory apprenticeship that ended in 1840. The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 received the Royal Assent (which means it became law) on 29 August 1833. ![]() Sarah Winter, “On the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica and the Governor Eyre-George William Gordon Controversy, 1865-70″ ![]() An amendment of the Colonial Governors Act (1700), the Criminal Jurisdiction Act holds colonial officials accountable to the Court of King’s Bench in England for crimes committed in the colonies. ![]()
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