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Letter from special magistrate to Governor of Jamaica, 18th August 1835. Reporting that the apprentices are working according to the new law and working for wages in their own time. (Slaves were freed under the Emancipation Act, and then forced to work as apprentices). From Papers Relative to Abolition of Slavery, Part III (1), 1836.

Date: 1836

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