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

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

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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
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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 Americas Caribbean & West Indies Racism & Discrimination Social Sciences Caribbean
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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.

Harrowing

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