This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a 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. Describing the hard...
This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery i...
This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a 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. Describing the hard...
This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to fully abolish slavery i...
