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Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave
Author | : Hank Trent |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807151041 |
The American Anti-Slavery Society originally published Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave in 1838 to much fanfare, describing it as a rare slave autobiography. Soon thereafter, however, southerners challenged the authenticity of the work and the society retracted it. Abolitionists at the time were unable to defend the book; and, until now, historians could not verify Williams's identity or find the Alabama slave owners he named in the book. As a result, most scholars characterized the author as a fraud, perhaps never even a slave, or at least not under the circumstances described in the book. In this annotated edition of Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Hank Trent provides newly discovered biographical information about the true author of the book -- an African American man enslaved in Alabama and Virginia. Trent identifies Williams's owners in those states as well as in Maryland and Louisiana. He explains how Williams escaped from slavery and then altered his life story to throw investigators off his track. Through meticulous and extensive research, Trent also reveals unknown details of James Williams's real life, drawing upon runaway ads, court cases, census records, and estate inventories never before linked to him or to the narrative. In the end, Trent proves that the author of the book was truly an enslaved man, albeit one who wrote a romanticized, fictionalized story based on his real life, which proved even more complex and remarkable than the story he told.
A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica
Author | : James Williams |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001-07-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822326472 |
DIVScholarly edition of a slave narrative that tells of life as an "apprentice" under the British gradual emancipation plan./div
Narrative of James Williams
Author | : James Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book contains the memoir of James Williams, an American slave who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama.
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave
Author | : Hank Trent |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807151033 |
The American Anti-Slavery Society originally published Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave in 1838 to much fanfare, describing it as a rare slave autobiography. Soon thereafter, however, southerners challenged the authenticity of the work and the society retracted it. Abolitionists at the time were unable to defend the book; and, until now, historians could not verify Williams's identity or find the Alabama slave owners he named in the book. As a result, most scholars characterized the author as a fraud, perhaps never even a slave, or at least not under the circumstances described in the book. In this annotated edition of Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Hank Trent provides newly discovered biographical information about the true author of the book -- an African American man enslaved in Alabama and Virginia. Trent identifies Williams's owners in those states as well as in Maryland and Louisiana. He explains how Williams escaped from slavery and then altered his life story to throw investigators off his track. Through meticulous and extensive research, Trent also reveals unknown details of James Williams's real life, drawing upon runaway ads, court cases, census records, and estate inventories never before linked to him or to the narrative. In the end, Trent proves that the author of the book was truly an enslaved man, albeit one who wrote a romanticized, fictionalized story based on his real life, which proved even more complex and remarkable than the story he told.
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama
Author | : James Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-05-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781718894990 |
Narrative of James Williams was one of the first slave narratives published.
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Honorary Professor of Philosophy and Member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization James Williams |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780259525363 |
Excerpt from Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama The cardinal principle of slavery, that a. Slave is not to be ranked among sentient beings, but among things, as afi' article of property, a chattel personal, obtains as undoubted law, in all the slave states. (judge Stroud's sketch of Slave Laws, p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Slave's Narrative
Author | : Charles T. Davis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 1991-02-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0195362020 |
These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts.