Amelioration – test-media

Abolitionism, Amelioration, Defence of slavery, Kingston, Slave trade abolition

Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 15 December 1788

By cp16v07 15th December 1788 15th December 1788

By the end of 1788, the assembly had produced a report, to be publicised in Britain, in response to the calls for an end to the slave trade and criticisms of slavery in the West Indies. Taylor hoped that this would be sufficient to put an end to the abolitionist …

Abolitionism, Amelioration, Enslaved people, Kingston, Slave trade abolition

Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 21 July 1788

By cp16v07 21st July 1788 21st July 1788

The Jamaican assembly’s representative in Britain was the Island Agent, Stephen Fuller, who was responsible for reporting metropolitan developments to the assembly in Jamaica and for promoting the views and interests of the assembly in Britain. The Consolidated Slave Act, passed by the assembly at the beginning of 1788 legislated …