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

Describing the hard working conditions on plantations and harsh treatment of apprentices unjustly incarcerated, this book 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.