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Emancipation Act

Published on Dec 09, 2015

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Emancipation Act

1833
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Emancipation act, or the slavery abolition act, was a movement of the Parliament of the U.K that promised freedom

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After 50 years of debate, the act actually abolished or outlawed slavery

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The reason why the emancipation act occurred slowly and gradually was because of the government's fear of both the slaves and their owners

The novel sets the historical mood of the novel by mentioning the Emancipation act

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Wide Sargasso Sea begins immediately after emancipation and the narrator wants the readers to sympathise with the harmful effects that the liberated slaves had upon the creoles and the ex slave owners