Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies - Milestone Documents

Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies

( 1833 ) Commentary by Ian Morley, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Glossary

  • Descent inheritance
  • enrolled in Chancery officially registered
  • his Majesty's Colonies colonies existing during the reign of William IV
  • Indenture of Apprenticeship work contract specifying a relationship that includes material support but not necessarily a salary
  • manumitted and set free liberated and emancipated, meaning both set free and set free from slavery
  • Nonconformists persons not conforming to the Church of England; also Protestants
  • seditious Conventicles meetings for the purpose of plotting insurrection or rebellion
  • seised of having acquired ownership of
  • Twenty Millions of Pounds Sterling approximately £1,500,000,000
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