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Pamphlet: An act for the abolition of slavery in the island of Dominica
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- 1834 (Creation)
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"Following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, in which Great Britain provided for the immediate abolition of slavery in all of its West Indian colonies with a £20m restitution to the slaveowners, a few of their colonies passed their own legislative acts. Only two such acts were separately printed however; St. Kitts and the present one on the island of Dominica. Conforming to the 1833 British parliamentary act, the present act details the newly-formed apprenticeship system as well as stipulations concerning punishments, land ownership, the bearing of arms, etc." --description by Librería de Antaño