It was petitioned for in the Convention of Tennessee in 1834. It was discussed at a still ... to restore the whole question of gradual emancipation to its original and rightful position within ...

2002. The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the U.S. South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. Green, William A., 1969. The Apprenticeship in British ...

It is celebrated annually on Aug. 1, the day the act came into force in 1834. Trinidad and Tobago was the first independent ...