DIVScholarly edition of a slave narrative that tells of life as an "apprentice" under the British gradual emancipation plan./div

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'

This 1837 memoir proved an effective tool for abolitionists. One of the few autobiographies by a Caribbean slave, it recounts the horrors of the apprenticeship