Williams, James, 1818- (Personal Name)

Old catalog heading: Williams, James.

Not to be confused with James Williams, b. 1805, or James Williams, b. 1825.

LC manual cat. (hdg.: Williams, James; usage: James Williams, an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica)

British Library. Gen. cat. of printed books to 1975 (Williams (James); a Negro apprentice in Jamaica; narrative from 8/1/1834 till the purchase of his freedom in 1837)

His A narrative of events, since the first of August, 1834, by James Williams, an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica, 2001: introduction, p. xx, etc. (James [Williams]; Creole; apprentice at Penshurst plantation, St. Ann, Jamaica; b. 1818, son of Mira (b. Africa, 1787); a register dated June, 1820 gives his age as 2 years, 4 months)

A narrative of events since the first of August, 1834, 1999: original t.p. image (James Williams, an apprenticed labourer in Jamaica) p. 1 ("I am about eighteen years old." This ed. originally pub. ca. 1837)

MWA/NAIP files, Jan. 18, 2012 (hdg.: Williams, James, b. 1818; note: do not confuse with James Williams, b. 1825, a slave from Maryland who escaped at age 13 and eventually went to California, or James Williams, b. 1805, a slave who was a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama)