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Title: Emancipation in the West Indies: a six months' tour in
Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the year 1837.Author: James A
ThomePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph
Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana,
1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and
other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the
U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans,
slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana
offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
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insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00382700CollectionID:
CTRG10169765-BPublicationDate: 18380101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Includes index.Collation: xi, 15]-489 p.; 20 cm
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Published in 1838 by the American Anti-Slavery Society, who had
commissioned their investigative tour, Thome and Kimball's
Emancipation in the West Indies immediately became an influential
abolitionist text. Many anti-abolitionists in America were
prophesying major upheaval should slavery be outlawed. Slavery had
been officially abolished in the British West Indies in 1827, and
the object of the tour was to assess the results there. The islands
visited had followed different models ranging from total abolition
to a gradual change through apprenticeship until 1838, and the
results had proved those who feared abolition wrong. There had been
no insurrection or increase in crime, participation in education
and religion among former slaves had generally increased, and only
the former slave-owners were unhappy about the economic
consequences for their estates. The book contains documentary
evidence from residents and officials of the islands, describing
the effects of emancipation.
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