Book Description
DIVScholarly edition of a slave narrative that tells of life as an "apprentice" under the British gradual emancipation plan./div
Author : James Williams
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2001-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822326472
DIVScholarly edition of a slave narrative that tells of life as an "apprentice" under the British gradual emancipation plan./div
Author : James Williams
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : James Williams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0486789632
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.
Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Apprenticeship programs
ISBN : 9786612920042
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.
Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2009-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409985884
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.
Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 1834
Category : Blacks
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Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Apprentices
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Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : James Williams
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Apprentices
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Author : Henrice Altink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1134268696
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.