Author: James Williams
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822326472
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
DIVScholarly edition of a slave narrative that tells of life as an "apprentice" under the British gradual emancipation plan./div
A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica
Author: James Williams
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822326472
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
DIVScholarly edition of a slave narrative that tells of life as an "apprentice" under the British gradual emancipation plan./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822326472
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
DIVScholarly edition of a slave narrative that tells of life as an "apprentice" under the British gradual emancipation plan./div
Narrative of events, since the first of August, 1834 by James Williams, an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica
Author: James Williams
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Languages : en
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A Narrative of Events Since the 1st of August, 1834
Author: James Williams
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Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (Dodo Press)
Author: James Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781409985884
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
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ISBN: 9781409985884
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
A Narrative of Events since the first of August, 1834. [On the treatment experienced by J. W. as a negro apprentice. With a preface by T. Price.]
Author: James Williams
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Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Publisher:
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Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Honorary Professor of Philosophy and Member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization James Williams
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259442943
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Excerpt from A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834 I AM about eighteen years old. I was a slave belonging to Mr. Senior and his sister, and was brought up at the place where they live, called Penshurst, in Saint Ann's parish, in Jamaica. I have been very ill treated by Mr. Senior and the magis trates since the new law come in. Apprentices get a great deal more punishment now than they did when they was slaves the master take spite, and do all he can to hurt them before the free come - I have heard my master say, Those English devils say we to be free, but if we is to free, he will pretty well weaken we, before the six and the four years done we shall be no use to ourselves afterwards. 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.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780259442943
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Excerpt from A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834 I AM about eighteen years old. I was a slave belonging to Mr. Senior and his sister, and was brought up at the place where they live, called Penshurst, in Saint Ann's parish, in Jamaica. I have been very ill treated by Mr. Senior and the magis trates since the new law come in. Apprentices get a great deal more punishment now than they did when they was slaves the master take spite, and do all he can to hurt them before the free come - I have heard my master say, Those English devils say we to be free, but if we is to free, he will pretty well weaken we, before the six and the four years done we shall be no use to ourselves afterwards. 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.
Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica
Author: James Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786612920042
Category : Apprenticeship programs
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9786612920042
Category : Apprenticeship programs
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
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.
No Bond But the Law
Author: Diana Paton
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822333982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
DIVThe author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the transition from slavery to freedom./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822333982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
DIVThe author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the transition from slavery to freedom./div
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition
Author: B. Carey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230522602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual culture in the 'long' Eighteenth-century. The book begins by examining writing about slavery and race by both philosophers and by authors such as Aphra Behn. It considers self-representation in the works of Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, James Williams and Mary Prince. The final section reads literary and cultural texts associated with the abolition movements of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, moving beyond traditional accounts of the documents of that movement to show the importance of religious writing, children's literature and the relationship between art and abolition.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230522602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual culture in the 'long' Eighteenth-century. The book begins by examining writing about slavery and race by both philosophers and by authors such as Aphra Behn. It considers self-representation in the works of Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, James Williams and Mary Prince. The final section reads literary and cultural texts associated with the abolition movements of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, moving beyond traditional accounts of the documents of that movement to show the importance of religious writing, children's literature and the relationship between art and abolition.
A Narrative of Events
Author: James Williams
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486789632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486789632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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.