Before Windrush: Britain’s long relationship with the Caribbean
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The Story of James Williams
In 1834, Britain sent a whole class of new officials who were known as Dipendary Magistrates. They actually went around in circuits, around each island or each colony and adjudicated between masters and apprentices. And often those punishments were as harsh, if not even in some cases harsher, than those that had taken place during slavery. In the 1840s and 1850s across the Caribbean there are various clashes over conditions freed people were working in.
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