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A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica

A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica

James Williams

Duke University Press
2001
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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 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 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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A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica

A Narrative of Events, Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica

James Williams

Duke University Press
2001
sidottu
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 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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Narrative 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,: Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama

James Williams

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2010
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"AMERICAN SLAVERY," said the celebrated John Wesley," is the vilest beneath the sun " Of the truth of this emphatic remark no other proof is required than an examination of the statute books of the American slave states. Tested by its own laws, in all that facilitates and protects the hateful process of converting a man into a "chattel personal;" in all that stamps the law-maker and law-upholder with meanness and hypocrisy, it certainly has no present rival of its " bad eminence;" and we may search in vain the history of a world's despotism for a parallel. The civil code of Justinian never acknowledged, with that our democratic despotisms, the essential equality, of man. The dreamer in the gardens of Epicurus recognized neither in himself, nor in the slave who ministered to his luxury, the immortality of the spiritual. nature. Neither Solon nor Lycursus taught the inalienability of human rights.
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Conquer Congestive Heart Failure: The Journey of James Williams

Conquer Congestive Heart Failure: The Journey of James Williams

James Williams

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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The life of James Williams Jr. was turned upside down when he was diagnosed with Cardiomyopathy, a congestive failure of the heart in which the vital organ becomes enlarged, thick or rigid. James did not allow his condition to define him; instead he chose to share his journey with the world. In this book, he talks about how he overcame many obstacles by using the L.OV.E Technique. He also includes many of his juicing recipes and shares how Juicing with The Williams came about. There is so much more to his story that will give you hope to get through any challenges you may be facing. He was once a man with no health issues, and although his condition is a life-changing one, he chose to make health changes to live a longer life. If you are someone who is battling with a condition and you need a little hope to keep fighting, then this book is for you. Don't let your condition define you, become a conqueror.
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Evan James Williams

Evan James Williams

Rowland Wynne

University of Wales Press
2017
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Dyma gyfrol sy’n rhoi darlun o fywyd a gwaith y ffisegydd o Gymro, yr Athro Evan James Williams, gwr a gafodd ei ddisgrifio fel un o’r gwyddonwyr mwyaf galluog a welodd Cymru erioed ac fe’i cydnabyddid fel arbrofwr dyfeisgar a damcaniaethwr disglair. Cymerodd ran flaenllaw yn y chwyldro a ddigwyddodd yn negawdau cyntaf yr ugeinfed ganrif gyda datblygiad ffiseg cwantwm. Cydweithiodd gyda’r arloeswyr (nifer ohonynt yn enillwyr gwobr Nobel) a gwnaeth gyfraniad nodedig ym maes gwrthdrawiadau atomig ac yn narganfyddiad gronyn elfennol newydd. Ym 1939, ymunodd yn y dasg o ddiddymu bygythiad dinistriol llongau tanfor a chyflawnodd waith gorchestol. Amlygir ei alluoedd di-gymar yn y gyfrol hon, a chyflwynir yn ogystal ddarlun o gymeriad hoffus a thwymgalon na gollodd ei ymlyniad na’i gariad tuag at fro ei febyd a’i diwylliant.
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Evan James Williams

Evan James Williams

Rowland Wynne

University of Wales Press
2020
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This book presents the life and work of Professor Evan James Williams, described as one of Wales's most eminent scientists. Williams played a prominent part in the early twentieth-century revolution in physics with the emergence of quantum physics, and was an able experimentalist and brilliant theoretician who made notable contributions in atomic physics and the discovery of a new elementary particle. From humble beginnings in rural Cardiganshire, his stellar career is charted in this book as he climbed the academic ladder at a number of universities, culminating in his appointment as professor of physics at Aberystwyth and election to a fellowship of the Royal Society. During the Second World War, he was instrumental in applying operational research to thwart the threat of German submarines in the Atlantic. His career was cut short, however, by his early death in 1945.
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Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave

Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave

Hank Trent

Louisiana State University Press
2013
sidottu
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.
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Hand of God: A Memorial to Anderson James Williams, MD

Hand of God: A Memorial to Anderson James Williams, MD

Lois Stovall Williams Phd

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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Lois Stovall Williams writes a tender, Christ-centered memoir of her husband, Anderson James Williams, a physician dedicated to serving the African-American community. In spite of segregation in the South, Anderson rose to preeminence in his field of pathology. After serving in the Army, he graduated from Meharry Medical College. He was Chief of Pathology at Norfolk Community Hospital. In later life, he headed the AJ Williams Medical Corporation, serving fellow veterans with disabilities, helping them obtain compensation for their service-connected exposures and injuries. Lois, in her memorial, says, "Before I knew Anderson, I was independent, ambitious, and assertive. When I met Anderson, I saw interior capacities I had never seen before. Anderson was soft spoken and kind. He was a good listener and anticipated the needs of others with sincerity and charity. Anderson's love guided me to greater heights in life."
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