Emancipation Act
What year was the British Emancipation Act passed?
What is 1833?
What were apprentices forbidden to do without permission?
What is change residence or leave the estate
How many hours per week were apprentices required to work?
What is 40-45 hours per week?
Where did many locals migrate to for better opportunities?
What is St. Thomas and Crab Island/Puerto Rico
Name one challenge faced by former apprentices after emancipation.
What is lack of land, jobs, or fair wages?
Why did plantation owners view the Emancipation Act as a threat?
What is it ended their livelihood and investment?
Who do we call the persons that gave the former slaves consequences for misbehaving during the Vagrancy Act?
What are Magistrates?
What replaced sugar as the economic focus?
What is Livestock and ground provisions
Under the apprenticeship system, this group was still required to work without full freedom.
Who are the formerly enslaved Africans?
What did planters provide in addition to wages?
What are: Housing, provision grounds, medical care
What did parents do that reduced their children’s involvement in estate labor?
What is parents began sending their children to school during the Apprenticeship period
LOOSE A TURN!
THE TEAM THAT IS NEXT GETS TO PLAY!
Name two punishable offenses under the Apprenticeship system.
What are: Insubordination, vagrancy, rioting, resistance, escape
What act was enforced to punish absences and resistance?
What is the Vagrancy Act
What happened to the copper mining company in Virgin Gorda in 1840?
What is It went bankrupt?