1838 EMANCIPATION in WEST INDIES 6 MONTHS TOUR ANTIGUA BARBADOES JAMAICA antique

img{max-width:100%}EMANCIPATION in the WEST INDIES SIX MONTHS TOUR in ANTIGUA, BARBADOES, and JAMAICA IN THE YEAR 1837 Thome, James Armstrong (1813-1873) and Joseph Horace Kimball Published by The American Anti-Slavery Society, New York, 1838 xi, [4], 16-489 pp. Size 4 3/4 by 7 1/2" Original embossed cloth binding Both covers are detached, spine damaged, some foxing Text in English ================================================== James Thome was the son of a Kentucky slaveholder. But, from early on, he harbored uneasy feelings about slavery, and in 1834, that uneasiness turned to unqualified abhorrence when as a theological student he attended an extended debate on the morality of slavery. Soon Thome was serving as a traveling agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, and by 1837, he and a companion, Horace Kimball, were conducting a study for the society on the results of slave emancipation in the British West Indies. In the report on this trip, E