Issuance of Compensation Awards
- When
- 1837
- Where
- British Colonies
- Part of
- Slave Compensation Act 1837
More than 40,000 awards were issued to slave owners based on a government census of 1 August 1834, totaling approximately £20 million for enslaved people freed in the Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope.
Slave owners were paid approximately £20 million in more than 40,000 awards for enslaved people freed in the colonies of the Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope, according to a government census that named all owners as of 1 August 1834. The largest total amount paid was to Sir John Gladstone, who received £106,769 for 2,508 enslaved men, women and children across nine plantations that had been his property before the passage of the 1833 Act. The majority of recipients are listed in a Parliamentary Return from 1837–8.
Sources
- Slave Compensation Act 1837 Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-12
- Slavery Abolition Act 1833 Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-19
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