https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJAlcOuqrzsiEtNa1L7hmOWb84K2QB5bwLdO<\/a><\/p>\nUnfree labour did not come to an end in the Anglophone Caribbean in 1834. Although the enslaved were declared legally free on August 1, they were obliged to serve a period of Apprenticeship to their former masters. This meant that ex-slaves were legally obligated to work without compensation for their former masters for up to forty-five hours per week. Their term of continued compulsory labor depended on their status: former field slaves (praedials) were to be apprenticed for six years while skilled apprentices and domestics (non-praedials) were to be fully free after four years. Apprentices resisted the system at its outset; subsequently, they attempted to assert their rights as much as possible during the Apprenticeship period, even in the face of a highly oppressive system. This paper seeks to recreate aspects of their world and understand how apprentices sought to use Apprenticeship to improve their lives.<\/p>\n
About the Speaker
\nProfessor Gad Heuman<\/em> – Professor Emeritus at University of Warwick<\/p>\nGad Heuman is one of the convenors of the Caribbean Seminar at the Institute of the Americas. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick and a former Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at Warwick. He is the author of Between Black and White, The Killing Time and The Caribbean: A Brief History and has edited books on Slave Resistance, Labour, The History of Slavery, and the Post-Emancipation Caribbean. He is the editor of the journal Slavery & Abolition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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An event part of the UCL Institute of the Americas Caribbean Seminar Series<\/p>\n