A speech delivered to celebrate the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, which came into force on 1 August 1834.
The act abolished slavery in the British Empire, excluding "the Territories in the Possession of the East India Company, or to the Island of Ceylon, or to the Island of Saint Helena". However, slaves above the age of six were actually redesignated as 'apprentices', being, in effect, another form of servitude, which was abolished in 1838.
The speech focuses on the situation in Jamaica, of which the Earl of Mulgrave, Constantine Phipps (1797–1863), had been governor from 1832 to 1834.
A speech delivered to celebrate the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833
Constantine Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave. The speech of the Earl of Mulgrave, &c. &c. &c. delivered at Freemasons' Hall on Friday, the 1st of August, 1834. At a public dinner of the Anti-Slavery Society in celebration of the day.
London, Hatchard, 1834.
19,5 x 12 cm. 16 pp. Modern cloth. Some potting, otherwise in very good condition.