Emancipation Day 2025 Jamaica. The holiday commemorates when the slavery abolition act of 1833 came into force, and jamaica. When full emancipation was achieved in 1838, a system that had been tried and tested in the caribbean since the sixteenth century came to an end.
In the table below, you will find when emancipation day is official marked and celebrated in jamaica over a span of 15 years. When full emancipation was achieved in 1838, a system that had been tried and tested in the caribbean since the sixteenth century came to an end.