A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica
Williams, James; Paton, Diana (Editor)
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2001
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8vo. lxiii 141 pp., bibliography, index. Cover shows minor edge wear and rubbing.
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- Title
- A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica
- Author
- Williams, James; Paton, Diana (Editor)
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, Durham and London
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822326477
- ISBN 13
- 9780822326472
- Edition
- First Thus
- Seller catalogs
- History
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’s 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’s 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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About the Author
Diana Paton is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Newcastle.
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