- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Duke University Press; annotated edition edition (1 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0822326477
- ISBN-13: 978-0822326472
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 14.8 x 1.5 cm
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- #99 in Books > History > Countries & Regions > Central America & Caribbean > Caribbean Islands > West Indies > Jamaica
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"Williams's narrative contributes a distinctive dimension to our understanding of the development of 'Black Atlantic' writing. His is a rare account of a slave's transition to freedom under the conditions of the British emancipation program in Jamaica. The rich historical and social texture provided by Paton enhances this striking narrative's import."--William L. Andrews, coeditor of "The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives"
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This book brings back into print, for the first time since the 1830s, a text that was central to the transatlantic campaign to completely 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 working conditions on plantations and the harsh treatment of apprentices unjustly incarcerated, Williams argues that apprenticeship actually worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves: former owners, no longer legally permitted to directly punish their workers, used the Jamaican legal system as a punitive lever against them. Williams' story documents the collaboration of local magistrates in this practice, wherein apprentices were routinely jailed and beaten for both real and imaginary infractions of the apprenticeship regulations. In addition to the complete text of Williams' original "Narrative", this fully annotated edition includes nineteenth-century responses to the controversy from the British and Jamaican press, as well as extensive testimony from the Commission of Enquiry that heard evidence regarding the Narrative's claims. These fascinating and revealing documents constitute the largest extant body of direct testimony by Caribbean slaves or apprentices.
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