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A Narrative Of Events Since The First Of August 1834 By James Williams An Apprenticed Labourer In Jamaica
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Book Synopsis A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica by : James Williams
Download or read book A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica written by James Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVScholarly edition of a slave narrative that tells of life as an "apprentice" under the British gradual emancipation plan./div
Book Synopsis Narrative of events, since the first of August, 1834 by James Williams, an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica by : James Williams
Download or read book Narrative of events, since the first of August, 1834 by James Williams, an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica written by James Williams and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Narrative of Events by : James Williams
Download or read book A Narrative of Events written by James Williams and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1837 memoir proved an effective tool for abolitionists. One of the few autobiographies by a Caribbean slave, it recounts the horrors of the apprenticeship system that replaced the British slave trade.
Book Synopsis Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica by : James Williams
Download or read book Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica written by James Williams and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Describi.
Book Synopsis A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (Dodo Press) by : James Williams
Download or read book A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834 (Dodo Press) written by James Williams and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal narrative of James Williams, an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica, written when he was about eighteen years old. The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on 25 March 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire. Slaves were still held, though not sold, within the British Empire. In the 1820s, the abolitionist movement again became active, this time campaigning against the institution of slavery itself. In 1823 the first Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Britain. Many of the campaigners were those who had previously campaigned against the slave trade. On 28 August 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act was given Royal Assent, which paved the way for the abolition of slavery within the British Empire and its colonies. On 1 August 1834, all slaves in the British Empire were emancipated, but they were indentured to their former owners in an apprenticeship system which was abolished in two stages; the first set of apprenticeships came to an end on 1 August 1838, while the final apprenticeships ended two years later on 1 August 1840.
Book Synopsis A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834 by : James Williams
Download or read book A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834 written by James Williams and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Narrative of Events Since the 1st of August, 1834 by : James Williams
Download or read book A Narrative of Events Since the 1st of August, 1834 written by James Williams and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrative of the cruel treatment of James Williams, a negro apprentice in Jamaica, from 1st August, 1834, till the purchase of his freedom in 1837, etc by : James Williams
Download or read book Narrative of the cruel treatment of James Williams, a negro apprentice in Jamaica, from 1st August, 1834, till the purchase of his freedom in 1837, etc written by James Williams and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838 by : Henrice Altink
Download or read book Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838 written by Henrice Altink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.
Book Synopsis Jubilee's Experiment by : Dexter J. Gabriel
Download or read book Jubilee's Experiment written by Dexter J. Gabriel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dexter J. Gabriel's Jubilee's Experiment is a thorough examination of how the emancipated British Caribbean colonies entered into the debates over abolition and African American citizenship in the US from the 1830s through the 1860s. It analyzes this public discourse, created by black and white abolitionists, and African Americans more generally in antebellum America, as both propaganda and rhetoric. Simultaneously, Gabriel interweaves the lived experiences of former slaves in the West Indies – their daily acts of resistance and struggles for greater freedoms – to further augment but complicate this debate. An important and timely intervention, Jubilee's Experiment argues that the measured success of former slaves in the West Indies became a crucial focal point in the struggle against slavery in antebellum North America.
Book Synopsis A History of African American Autobiography by : Joycelyn Moody
Download or read book A History of African American Autobiography written by Joycelyn Moody and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This History explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. By analyzing the different forms of autobiography, including pictorial and personal essays, editorials, oral histories, testimonials, diaries, personal and open letters, and even poetry performance media of autobiographies, this book extends the definition of African American autobiography, revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans use life writing and autobiography to address personal and collective Black experiences of identity, family, memory, fulfillment, racism and white supremacy. Individual chapters examine scrapbooks as a source of self-documentation, African American autobiography for children, readings of African American persona poems, mixed-race life writing after the Civil Rights Movement, and autobiographies by African American LGBTQ writers.
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by :
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Reaper’s Garden by : Vincent Brown
Download or read book The Reaper’s Garden written by Vincent Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Longlisted for the Cundill Prize “Vincent Brown makes the dead talk. With his deep learning and powerful historical imagination, he calls upon the departed to explain the living. The Reaper’s Garden stretches the historical canvas and forces readers to think afresh. It is a major contribution to the history of Atlantic slavery.”—Ira Berlin From the author of Tacky’s Revolt, a landmark study of life and death in colonial Jamaica at the zenith of the British slave empire. What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper’s Garden, Vincent Brown asks this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the British Empire in America—and a human catastrophe. Popularly known as the grave of the Europeans, it was just as deadly for Africans and their descendants. Yet among the survivors, the dead remained both a vital presence and a social force. In this compelling and evocative story of a world in flux, Brown shows that death was as generative as it was destructive. From the eighteenth-century zenith of British colonial slavery to its demise in the 1830s, the Grim Reaper cultivated essential aspects of social life in Jamaica—belonging and status, dreams for the future, and commemorations of the past. Surveying a haunted landscape, Brown unfolds the letters of anxious colonists; listens in on wakes, eulogies, and solemn incantations; peers into crypts and coffins, and finds the very spirit of human struggle in slavery. Masters and enslaved, fortune seekers and spiritual healers, rebels and rulers, all summoned the dead to further their desires and ambitions. In this turbulent transatlantic world, Brown argues, “mortuary politics” played a consequential role in determining the course of history. Insightful and powerfully affecting, The Reaper’s Garden promises to enrich our understanding of the ways that death shaped political life in the world of Atlantic slavery and beyond.
Book Synopsis The Children of Africa in the Colonies by : Melanie J. Newton
Download or read book The Children of Africa in the Colonies written by Melanie J. Newton and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How emancipation transformed social and political relations in Barbados When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that many of these men had owned slaves themselves gives a hollow ring to their lofty pronouncements. Yet in The Children of Africa in the Colonies, Melanie J. Newton demonstrates that simply dismissing these men as hypocrites ignores the complexity of their relationship to slavery. Exploring the role of free blacks in Barbados from 1790 to 1860, Newton argues that the emancipation process transformed social relations between Afro-Barbadians and slaves and ex-slaves. Free people of color in Barbados genuinely wanted slavery to end, Newton explains, a desire motivated in part by the realization that emancipation offered them significant political advantages. As a result, free people's goals for the civil rights struggle that began in Barbados in the 1790s often diverged from those of the slaves, and the tensions that formed along class, education, and gender lines severely weakened the movement. While the populist masses viewed emancipation as an opportunity to form a united community among all people of color, wealthy free people viewed it as a chance to better their position relative to white Europeans. To this end, free people of color refashioned their identities in relationship to Africa. Prior to the 1820s, Newton reveals, they downplayed their African descent, emphasizing instead their legal status as free people and their position as owners of property, including slaves. As the emancipation debate in the Atlantic world reached its zenith in the 1820s and 1830s and whites grew increasingly hostile and inflexible, elite free people allied themselves with the politics of the working class and the slaves, relying for the first time on their African heritage and the association of their skin color with slavery to openly challenge white supremacy. After emancipation, free people of color again redefined themselves, now as loyal British imperial subjects, casting themselves in the role of political protectors of their ex-slave brethren in an attempt to escape social and political disenfranchisement. While some wealthy men of color gained political influence as a result of emancipation, the absence of fundamental change in the distribution of land and wealth left most men and women of color with little hope of political independence or social mobility. Mining a rich vein of primary and secondary sources, Newton's study elegantly describes how class divisions and disagreements over labor and social policy among free and slave black Barbadians led to political unrest and devastated the hope for an entirely new social structure and a plebeian majority in the British Caribbean.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative by : John Ernest
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative written by John Ernest and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume approaches the history of slave testimony in three ways: by prioritising the broad tradition over individual authors; by representing inter-disciplinary approaches to slave narratives; and by highlighting emerging scholarship on slave narratives, concerning both established debates over concerns of authorship and agency, for example, and developing concerns like eco-critical readings of slave narratives.
Book Synopsis Slavery, Freedom and Conflict by : Jane L. Bownas
Download or read book Slavery, Freedom and Conflict written by Jane L. Bownas and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story of Two Birminghams examines the roles played by two cities and the areas in which they are situated in the long history of people of African origin and their ancestors who were taken into slavery, experienced a phoney freedom and subsequently experienced racism, segregation and violence. From the eighteenth century the industrial city of Birmingham in England was involved in the manufacture of guns used in the African slave trade and then later, in the production and export of the steam engines used on the sugar plantations in the West Indies. In northern Alabama, on land where another industrial city of the same name would later develop, African slaves worked on cotton plantations owned by planters who would later make their fortunes by selling the mineral rich land. Abolitionists in Birmingham UK, and in the Southern States fought against much opposition to achieve freedom for the slaves. But this was often a phoney freedom: for example, under an apprenticeship system in Jamaica people endured conditions often worse than under slavery, and in Alabama they endured hard labour in the development of the new industrial city and under the Convict Lease system. Slavery, Freedom and Conflict follows the life path of descendants of slaves into the twentieth century, the difficulties experienced by West Indian immigrants in Birmingham UK, the segregation laws imposed in Birmingham, Alabama and the US Civil Rights movement which followed. Later in the century, riots occurring in Handsworth (Birmingham UK), the election of a far-right, racist politician in nearby Smethwick and the infamous speech of Enoch Powell indicated that, as in Birmingham, Alabama many black people were still suffering from the iniquities of the slave trade inflicted upon their ancestors more than two hundred years previously. This book is essential reading for all those with an interest in the history of slavery, and in the local history of the West Midlands of England and the Northern counties of Alabama.
Download or read book Creole Testimonies written by N. Aljoe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the relationships among the socio-historical contexts, generic forms, and rhetorical strategies of British West Indian slave narratives. Grounded by the syncretic theories of creolisation and testimonio it breaks new ground by reading these dictated and fragmentary narratives on their own terms as examples of 'creole testimony'.
