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Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society

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James Williams narrative

 Collection
Identifier: c-00584
Scope and Contents The collection contains a partial issue of the Anti-Slavery Examiner featuring the narrative of an escaped enslaved person, James Williams (born 1805). In his narrative, Williams details the daily life of enslaved people in Virginia and Alabama in the first half of the nineteenth century. He extensively discusses methods of torture used to punish them and recounts his experiences as a field driver on an Alabaman cotton plantation. Williams eventually...
Dates: circa 1838