Eman­ci­pa­tion in the Caribbean, re­ferred to as the abo­li­tion of slav­ery in the British West In­dies colonies, for­mal­ly took ef­fect on Au­gust 1, 1834, with the Slav­ery Abo­li­tion Act of 1833, which was pre­cip­i­tat­ed by the Hait­ian Slave Re­bel­lion of the late 1790s. It was orig­i­nal­ly led by an en­slaved Dut­ty Book­man of Ja­maica and then led by a Hait­ian black slave own­er, Tou­s­saint Lou­ver­ture.