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

Author: James Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 9786612920042

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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. Describi.

A Narrative of Events
A Narrative of Events

Author: James Williams

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2015-01-14

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 0486789632

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This 1837 memoir proved an effective tool for abolitionists. One of the few autobiographies by a Caribbean slave, it recounts the horrors of the apprenticeship system that replaced the British slave trade.

A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (Dodo Press)
A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (Dodo Press)

Author: James Williams

Publisher:

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781409985884

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Personal narrative of James Williams, an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica, written when he was about eighteen years old. The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on 25 March 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire. Slaves were still held, though not sold, within the British Empire. In the 1820s, the abolitionist movement again became active, this time campaigning against the institution of slavery itself. In 1823 the first Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Britain. Many of the campaigners were those who had previously campaigned against the slave trade. On 28 August 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act was given Royal Assent, which paved the way for the abolition of slavery within the British Empire and its colonies. On 1 August 1834, all slaves in the British Empire were emancipated, but they were indentured to their former owners in an apprenticeship system which was abolished in two stages; the first set of apprenticeships came to an end on 1 August 1838, while the final apprenticeships ended two years later on 1 August 1840.

Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838
Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838

Author: Henrice Altink

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-22

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1134268696

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This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.

Jubilee's Experiment
Jubilee's Experiment

Author: Dexter J. Gabriel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-06

Total Pages: 622

ISBN-13: 1108982220

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Dexter J. Gabriel's Jubilee's Experiment is a thorough examination of how the emancipated British Caribbean colonies entered into the debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the US from the 1830s through the 1860s. It analyzes this public discourse, created by black and white abolitionists, and African Americans more generally in antebellum America, as both propaganda and rhetoric. Simultaneously, Gabriel interweaves the lived experiences of former slaves in the West Indies – their daily acts of resistance and struggles for greater freedoms – to further augment but complicate this debate. An important and timely intervention, Jubilee's Experiment argues that the measured success of former slaves in the West Indies became a crucial focal point in the struggle against slavery in antebellum North America.

A History of African American Autobiography
A History of African American Autobiography

Author: Joycelyn Moody

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07-22

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 1108875661

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This History explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. By analyzing the different forms of autobiography, including pictorial and personal essays, editorials, oral histories, testimonials, diaries, personal and open letters, and even poetry performance media of autobiographies, this book extends the definition of African American autobiography, revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans use life writing and autobiography to address personal and collective Black experiences of identity, family, memory, fulfillment, racism and white supremacy. Individual chapters examine scrapbooks as a source of self-documentation, African American autobiography for children, readings of African American persona poems, mixed-race life writing after the Civil Rights Movement, and autobiographies by African American LGBTQ writers.