Neha Hui
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John Gladstone was a Scottish merchant, Member of Parliament and the father of future Prime Minister William Gladstone.
He was also a slave owner.
He had more than 2,500 slaves across nine plantations.
And he was one of those people who got the compensation that you were talking about a minute ago.
He got over £100,000 in compensation, which was close to £83 million in current money.
So as was mentioned, as Clem mentioned, it isn't like plantation owners like Gladstone lost complete control.
So right after slavery was abolished, a transitional period of apprenticeship was instated where former slaves were required to continue working for their slave owners for a period of up to eight years.
However, Gladstone was looking beyond that.
He wanted access to a reliable labour force.
So during the apprenticeships, they were required to provide unpaid labour for up to 45 hours a week.
No, no, definitely at least not in the initial years.
So, yes.
So going back to Gladstone.
So Gladstone was very keen to continue having the supply of reliable labour.
And so he knew that Mauritius had already started getting a supply of Indian workers from 1834.
And he started lobbying the parliament.
There were a couple of things, a couple of concerns that the plantation owners felt would reduce their profitability.
One was, of course, the Slavery Abolition Act.
But then there was another act which was being debated around the same time as indentured labour in the parliament.
That was the Sugar Equalisation Act, Sugar Equalisation Bill, which became an act in 1846.
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