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Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837.
A plea for immediate emancipation…
First hand reports of travels in the Caribbean and the effects of the abolition of slavery there by authors Rev. James A. Thome and J. Horace Kimball, commissioned by the American Anti-Slavery Society to observe the effects of emancipation in Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica in 1837.
Published in 1838, their account documents the absence of disorder during immediate emancipation, the decline of caste prejudice, and the progress of formerly enslaved people in “civilization, morals, and religion.” Thome’s advocacy for immediatism drew on both his Southern background and his abolitionist formation at Oberlin.
An important eyewitness account, and an influential abolitionist text, with added testimonies, tables, reports and so forth.
Description: Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837.
New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838. 12mo. (7½ x 4¾ inches). xi, [12]–489pp. Second edition. Publisher’s grained cloth; gilt spine title and blind stamped covers. Spine and portions of boards sunned. Owner’s name to front flyleaf and title page. Small split and loss to cloth at upper joint with old glue repair, foxing. A sound and solid copy; good.
[3728045]Cundall 2236. LCP, Afro-Americana 10207. Blockson, Catalogue 9385. Palau 331810. Work p. 274.
Price: $75.00