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    Start Over Collection Black Caribbean Literature (BCL) Publication Year 2001 Subject Term Jamaica

    5. A narrative of events since the first of August, 1834

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Williams,James (Author) and Paton,Diana (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Durham, NC: Duke University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    141 p, Reprints an 1830s 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