Research Catalog

Title

Emancipation in the West Indies : a six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the year 1837 / by Jas. A. Thome, and J. Horace Kimball.

Author

Thome, James A. (James Armstrong), 1813-1873

Publication

• New York : Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, no. 143 Nassau Street, 1838.
• ©1838.

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Additional Authors

• Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace), 1813-1838.
• Benedict, Seth Williston, 1803-1869
• American Anti-Slavery Society, publisher.

Description

xi, [4], 16-489, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map; 20 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Slaves > Emancipation > West Indies, British
• West Indies, British > Description and travel
• Barbados > Description and travel
• Jamaica > Description and travel
• Antigua > Description and travel

Note

• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by John Rankin, treasurer of the American Anti-Slavery Society, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "Printed by S.W. Benedict."--verso of title page.
• "Errata"--page [xii].
• Last page blank.
• Includes index.

Indexed In (note)

• Checklist of American imprints
• Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.972-T (Thome, J. Emancipation in the West Indies. 1838)

OCLC

• 879001
• 26378825
• NYPGR26378825-B

Author

Thome, James A. (James Armstrong), 1813-1873, author.

Title

Emancipation in the West Indies : a six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the year 1837 / by Jas. A. Thome, and J. Horace Kimball.

Publisher

New York : Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, no. 143 Nassau Street, 1838.

Copyright Date

©1838.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Checklist of American imprints, 53295

Dumond, D.L. Bibliography of antislavery in America, page 109

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 10207

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.972-T (accession no. B389699) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

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Added Author

Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace), 1813-1838.

American Anti-Slavery Society, publisher.

Benedict, Seth Williston, 1803-1869, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.972-T (Thome, J. Emancipation in the West Indies. 1838)