Slavery in the British and French Caribbean refers to slavery in the parts of the Caribbean dominated by France or the British Empire.
Read more about Slavery In The British And French Caribbean: Conditions, Abolition, Effects of The Abolition, Women, Social Production, and Slavery in The British Caribbean, Women and Resistance To Slavery in The British Caribbean
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“It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
“It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
“Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over—except when they are different.”
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