A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica

by James Williams

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326477
• ISBN13: 9780822326472
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.3"