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    2. 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

    3. History From Below Decks: <The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker> (Book Review)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Dean,James Seay (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    Saskatoon: Canadian Journal of History Co
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Canadian Journal of History
    Journal Title Details:
    36(3) : 513
    Notes:
    Examines how British colonial authorities in the Americas and the West Indies justified expropriation and oppression