Thome, Emancipation in the West Indies
Title
Thome, Emancipation in the West Indies
Description
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Published by the newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, this document relates a six-month journey intended to explore how the islands of Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica - and their enslaved populations - had been impacted by the abolition of slavery. Sourced from the United States but full of important information about immediately post-emancipation islands, an intersection in the stories of the American and Caribbean emancipation movements.
Published by the newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, this document relates a six-month journey intended to explore how the islands of Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica - and their enslaved populations - had been impacted by the abolition of slavery. Sourced from the United States but full of important information about immediately post-emancipation islands, an intersection in the stories of the American and Caribbean emancipation movements.
Title as Issued
Emancipation in the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the year 1837
Publication
New York, 1838
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Citation
“Thome, Emancipation in the West Indies,” The Caribbeana Project at AAS, accessed February 8, 2023, https://www.americanantiquarian.org/caribbeana/items/show/25.
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