The Amelioration and Abolition of Slavery in Trinidad, 1812 – 1834: Experiments and Protests in a new Slave Colony

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As the Preface states, this book is due to the a research project for the History Department of the University of the West Indies. This can be a work which sought to examine the way in which the slave policy of the British government used to be implemented in a new slave colony. Faced with recalcitrance on the a part of the older West Indian colonies, the Colonial Office did not accord Trinidad an independent legislature because it felt it could more easily implement its slave policy. Trinidad proved to be no more compliant than the other colonies, and logistically used to be not easy to supervise. No study has prior to now been done of the slave process in Trinidad. A statistical analysis of the registration used to be undertaken by A. Meredith John in 1988. The present study is important because it has focussed on an area that needed to be examined, and one which illustrates that one cannot generalise on the West Indies. It shows how easily a policy can fail, if administrators don’t seem to be in sync – as those in London were not all over this seminal period. The baneful effects of the British experiments extended to persons like the free coloured and black people, who were on the periphery of the system, but who were materially affected by it. This book is significant because it fills a gap in knowledge about the most important aspect of the island’s history. It also affords an opportunity to look at the attempt to make changes in a society that, for the most part, used to be not English. As such it stands as a warning of the wish to be aware the cultures of those for whom systems are devised before they are imposed.

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