Narrative of James Williams
Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Slavery
ISBN :
Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2018-05-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781718894990
Narrative of James Williams was one of the first slave narratives published.
Author : Honorary Professor of Philosophy and Member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization James Williams
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category :
ISBN : 9780259525363
Excerpt from Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama The cardinal principle of slavery, that a. Slave is not to be ranked among sentient beings, but among things, as afi' article of property, a chattel personal, obtains as undoubted law, in all the slave states. (judge Stroud's sketch of Slave Laws, p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic book
ISBN :
Author : Hank Trent
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807151033
The American Anti-Slavery Society originally published Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave in 1838 to much fanfare, describing it as a rare slave autobiography. Soon thereafter, however, southerners challenged the authenticity of the work and the society retracted it. Abolitionists at the time were unable to defend the book; and, until now, historians could not verify Williams's identity or find the Alabama slave owners he named in the book. As a result, most scholars characterized the author as a fraud, perhaps never even a slave, or at least not under the circumstances described in the book. In this annotated edition of Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Hank Trent provides newly discovered biographical information about the true author of the book -- an African American man enslaved in Alabama and Virginia. Trent identifies Williams's owners in those states as well as in Maryland and Louisiana. He explains how Williams escaped from slavery and then altered his life story to throw investigators off his track. Through meticulous and extensive research, Trent also reveals unknown details of James Williams's real life, drawing upon runaway ads, court cases, census records, and estate inventories never before linked to him or to the narrative. In the end, Trent proves that the author of the book was truly an enslaved man, albeit one who wrote a romanticized, fictionalized story based on his real life, which proved even more complex and remarkable than the story he told.
Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 1837
Category : History
ISBN :
This book contains the memoir of James Williams, an American slave who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama.
Author : Ann Fabian
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Nicole N. Aljoe
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081393639X
Focusing on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection of essays suggests the importance—even the necessity—of looking beyond the iconic and ubiquitous works of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs. In granting sustained critical attention to writers such as Briton Hammon, Omar Ibn Said, Juan Francisco Manzano, Nat Turner, and Venture Smith, among others, this book makes a crucial contribution not only to scholarship on the slave narrative but also to our understanding of early African American and Black Atlantic literature. The essays explore the social and cultural contexts, the aesthetic and rhetorical techniques, and the political and ideological features of these noncanonical texts. By concentrating on earlier slave narratives not only from the United States but from the Caribbean, South America, and Latin America as well, the volume highlights the inherent transnationality of the genre, illuminating its complex cultural origins and global circulation.
Author : Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807864226
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.