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Conditions in the Caribbean 100 years after abolition
In the 1930s, Jamaica and other islands in the Caribbean were disrupted by strikes and violent protests over poverty and high food prices. The British government, still ruling Jamaica over 100 years after the abolition of slavery, set up a committee to look into conditions in the Caribbean. The committee was called the Moyne Commission.
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