Focusing upon the achievement of the abolition of British slavery in 1833 has obscured significant continuities between slavery, apprenticeship, and the post-emancipation period, particularly in the new Anglophone settler colonies. During the decade leading up to abolition, domestic unrest intensified the tension between the elite abolitionist movement’s humanitarian concern for Caribbean slaves, and its leaders’ simultaneous implication in the repression of British workers – a corollary of which relegated convicts to the category of unreformable ‘voluntary slaves’. Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s 1829 proposal for colonization entered a longstanding debate about labour discipline that was central both to ameliorative slave reform and to experiments in emigration and settler colonialism, and expressed his ambivalence regarding the benefits of ‘free labour’. In the transition to new labour regimes, systematic colonization translated categories and practices developed in the Caribbean into colonial projects, including raced and classed labour hierarchies targeted to specific climatic zones. As Caribbean slavery ended and settler colonialism began, the new colonies offered a solution to the loss of the ‘trade in human flesh’ by removing dissenters from the British social order, opening up new fields for investment, and creating a disciplined colonial labour force.

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人肉贸易的秘密向往：英国奴隶制的衰落和定居者殖民地的建立

1833年着重于废除英国奴隶制的成就，掩盖了奴隶制，学徒制和后解放时期之间的重大连续性，特别是在新的英语殖民地殖民地中。在废除奴隶制的十年期间，国内动乱加剧了精英废奴运动对加勒比奴隶的人道主义关切与领导人同时压制英国工人之间的紧张关系。奴隶的。爱德华·吉本·韦克菲尔德（Edward Gibbon Wakefield）在1829年提出的殖民提议，引起了关于劳动纪律的长期辩论，这对改善奴隶制改革以及移民和定居者殖民主义的实验都至关重要，并表达了他对“自由劳动”的利益的抵触情绪。在向新的劳动制度过渡期间，系统化的殖民化将加勒比海地区发展起来的类别和做法转变为殖民项目，包括针对特定气候区的种族和等级劳动等级制度。随着加勒比奴隶制的结束和定居者殖民主义的开始，新殖民地通过将异议者从英国社会秩序中驱逐出去，开辟了新的投资领域，并建立了一支纪律严明的殖民地劳动力队伍，为“人肉贸易”的丧失提供了解决方案。