Features of Apprenticeship
This was the main goal of the apprenticeship system in the British colonies.
What is to transition enslaved people into wage laborers or free citizens?
This year marked the passing of the Abolition Act in the British Parliament.
What is 1833?
This year saw a major revolutionary conspiracy in the Virgin Islands.
What is 1831?
The apprenticeship system ended this many years earlier than planned.
What is two years? (originally planned to end in 1840, but ended in 1838)
After the system ended, former apprentices were now known as this.
What are freedmen or free people?
Under the apprenticeship system, this group was still required to work without full freedom.
Who are formerly enslaved Africans?
One major reason the British government passed the 1833 Act was due to this growing public movement.
What is the abolitionist movement?
The conspiracy involved a plan to do this to the plantation class.
What is overthrow or rebel against them?
This group was unhappy with the continuation of forced labor during apprenticeship.
Who are the apprentices or formerly enslaved people?
Name one challenge faced by former apprentices after emancipation.
What is lack of land, jobs, or fair wages?
Apprentices were required to work this number of hours per week without pay.
What is 40 hours?
This economic factor in Britain helped influence the abolition of slavery.
What is the decline in the profitability of slavery?
This emotion or condition among the enslaved sparked the 1831 conspiracy.
What is frustration and anger over continued oppression?
Name one major reason the system ended early in the Virgin Islands.
What is abuse and mistreatment by planters, or strong resistance by apprentices?
Many former apprentices stayed on plantations doing this type of work.
What is wage labor or sharecropping?
This institution was responsible for supervising the apprenticeship system.
What is the Office of the Stipendiary Magistrates?
This religious group strongly supported abolition and influenced Parliament.
Who are the Quakers?
The 1831 conspiracy showed this about the enslaved population’s desire for freedom.
What is they were willing to fight and risk their lives for freedom?
Planters often broke the rules of the system, including this abuse.
What is physical punishment or overworking apprentices?
The end of apprenticeship affected the Virgin Islands’ economy by reducing this.
What is the availability of cheap labor?
Name two rights apprentices were supposed to receive during the system.
What are the right to earn wages for extra work and protection from mistreatment?
Name one way the 1833 Act affected enslaved people in the Virgin Islands.
What is it made them apprentices instead of fully free individuals?
The fear of future revolts after 1831 contributed to the British doing this.
What is establishing the apprenticeship system as a “safe” step toward full freedom?
This British organization criticized the way the system operated in the colonies.
What is the Anti-Slavery Society?
Emancipation led to the growth of this kind of society in the Virgin Islands.
What is a free, yet economically struggling society with class tensions?