![]() Rittenhouse argued that the slaveholders and slave driver named in the narrative did not correspond to any people in that area and that there were questionable dates and distances. Rittenhouse, the editor of the Greensborough, Alabama, Beacon, claimed he found factual inconsistencies in Williams's account of his life in Alabama. xvii) yet two months after the narrative's publication, J.B. An abundance of authenticating documents from professional white men (including the famous Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who acted as Williams's amanuensis) attested to the "intelligence evident candor" of Williams and "strong confirmation of the truth and accuracy of his story" (p. ![]() ![]() Scholar John Blassingame notes that today the narrative is most often remembered as a "fraud" because of Southern newspaper columnists' attacks on the veracity of the narrative (p. ![]() Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama, was the first slave narrative published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. ![]()
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