Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter with the help of slave labour. Slavery was abolished in the 1830s 1509 - Jamaica occupied by the Spaniards under a licence from Columbus's son; much of the ...

After over twenty years of campaigning, the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by ... In 1831, workers from plantations in Jamaica began to strike. During the Christmas Rebellion, also ...

Nottingham University has come under fire for linking one of its most distinguished benefactors to slavery, despite the ...

Wedderburn was deeply influenced by his enslaved mother and grandmother, who raised him in Jamaica. After migrating to London ... provide an innovative lens for rereading significant aspects of the ...

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, an MP for Weymouth in the 1800s, was a driving force behind the abolition of slavery. There are already memorials to him in London, Jamaica and Sierra Leone. The £90,000 ...

The plantation was also the birthplace of one of Jamaica's heroes: Samuel Sharpe. Sharpe led the 1831 Slave Rebellion. This revolt eventually led to the 1834 Abolition Bill, passed by the British ...