LC control no. | no 97066718 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Williams, James, 1805- |
Variant(s) | Williams, James, b. 1805 Wilkins, Shadrach, 1805- Thornton, Jim, 1805- |
Special note | Not to be confused with James Williams, b. 1818, or James Williams, b. 1825. |
Found in | Narrative of James Williams, 1997: p. 25 (b. May 16, 1805, Powhatan County, Virginia) LC database, Apr. 29, 2009 (hdg.: Williams, James, 1805- ) His Narrative of James Williams, an American slave, who was for several years a driver on a cotton plantation in Alabama, 1838. MWA/NAIP files, Jan. 18, 2012 (hdg.: Williams, James, b. 1805; note: do not confuse with James Williams, b. 1818, a former slave and apprentice in Jamaica whose freedom was purchased in 1837; or James Williams, b. 1825, from Maryland who escaped from slavery at age 13 and eventually went to California) His Narrative of James Williams, an American slave, 2014: ECIP galley (James Williams; born in Powhatan County, Virginia, on the plantation of George Larrimore, senior, at a place called Mount Pleasant, on the 16th of May, 1805; after his final escape from Alabama in 1835, Williams changed his name from his birth name Shadrach Wilkins to James Williams; during one of his escapes, assumed the alias Jim Thornton) |