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    4. 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

    5. Among the bloodpeople : politics and flesh

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Glave,Thomas (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2013
    Published:
    New York: Akashic Books
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    223 p., "This collection is wide-ranging, moving from the Caribbean (Jamaica in particular) to Cambridge, England, and from poetry to sex to discrimination." -Library Journal

    10. Family and colour in Jamaica

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Henriques,Fernando (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1968
    Published:
    London: Macgibbon & Kee
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    208 p