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  • A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, By James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica

  • By: James Williams
  • Narrated by: Hal Saunders
  • Length: 54 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, By James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica

By: James Williams
Narrated by: Hal Saunders
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This work by James Williams is one of very few autobiographical texts by Caribbean slaves or former slaves. It became one of the most powerful abolitionist tools for ending the system of apprenticeship which had replaced slavery. Williams argues that apprenticeship worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves as former owners used the legal system against them.

Public Domain (P)2018 Museum Audiobooks
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  • Categories: History
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A detailed and disturbing account of horrific brutality with zero respite. It is told as a diary with no real narrative just a young mans recollections of an evil time, the hope being that he lived to tell it and that we can lean from it.

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