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1834

1834: A vagrancy bill is introduced in the Jamaican legislature but is subsequently disallowed by the British government.

1834: A vagrancy bill is introduced in the Jamaican legislature but is subsequently disallowed by the British government. This legal effort sought to replicate aspects of the Haitian labor codes to control the newly emancipated workforce.

Source  ·  p. 62 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 62