A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica (Latin America Otherwise) de Williams, James - 2001

Duke University Press Books, 2001-07-23. Paperback. Very Good. 0.5984 9.2992 5.8386.

Duke University Press Books, 2001-07-23. Annotated. paperback. Used: Good.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. lxiii, 141 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. A John Hope Franklin Center book. Tight, clean copy. "This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery in Britain's colonies. James Williams, an eighteen-year-old Jamaican 'apprentice' (former slave), came to Britain in 1837 at the instigation of the abolitionist Joseph Sturge. The Narrative he produced there, one of very few autobiographical texts by Caribbean slaves or former slaves, became one of the most powerful abolitionist tools for effecting the immediate end to the system of apprenticeship that had replaced slavery. Describing the hard working conditions on plantations and the harsh treatment of apprentices unjustly incarcerated, Williams argues that apprenticeship actually worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves: former owners, no longer legally permitted to directly punish their… Leer más

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Duke Univ Pr, 2001. Paperback. New. annotated edition. 208 pages. 9.00x5.50x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Describing the hard working conditions on plantations and harsh treatment of apprentices unjustly incarcerated, this book argues that apprenticeship actually worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves: former owners, no longer legally permitted to directly punish their workers, used the Jamaican legal system as a punitive lever against them.