Book/Printed Material Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the year 1837.
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Image 1 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 4545- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
- Date: 1838
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Image 2 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and …- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
- Date: 1838
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Image 3 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and …- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
- Date: 1838
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- Date: 1838
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Image 5 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and …- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 7 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … eh yr THE NO 7 ANTISLAVERY EXAMINER __ EMANCIPATION oe DoE WES TS EN DPE S A SIX MONTHS TOUR ANTIGUA BARBADOES AND JAMAICA iN THE YEAR 1837 BY JAS A THOME…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 8 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … ENTERED ay according to the act of Congress in the year 1838 by JOHN RANKIN Treasures of the Anwrican AntiSlavery Society L 21131 mw he Clels Office of the District Court of…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 9 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … CONTENTS CHAPTER I 724 Geography and Statistics of the Island 7Re flections on arrival 7Interview with Clergy men 7with the Governor 7with a member of Assembly 7Sabbath 8Service at the Mora vian…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 10 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 4 CONTENTS ae ship 74History of an Emancipated Slave 74 Breakfast Party at Mr Prescods 74Character and History of the late Editor of the New Times 74Breakfast Party at Mr Bournes 75Preju…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 11 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … i INTRODUCTION Ir is hardly possible that the success of British West India Emancipation should be more con clusively proved than it has been by the absence among us of the exultation…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 12 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … vi dex of preparing for the presswhich together with the great labor of condensing from the im mense aniount of collected materialsaccounts for the delay of the publication As neither Mr Thome…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 13 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … al i ANTI GUA pe HAPTER I _Anticua is about eighteen miles long and fifteen road the mterior is low and undulating the oast mountaiwous From the heights on the oast the…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 14 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 5 ANTIGUA abolition was now regarded as the salvation of the island SABBATH The morning of our first Sabbath in Antigua came with that hushed stillness which marks the Sabbath dawn in…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 15 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … The account here given is but a fair specimen of the solemnity and decoruny of an Antigua sab bath VISIT TO MILLARS ESTATE Early in the week after our arrival by the…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 16 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 10 by negroeschiefly those belonging to the estate who were emancipated in 1834 Fitchs Creek Estate is one of the largeston the Island consist ing of 500 acres of which 300 are…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 17 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … yee q ati tHe embarrassment of introducing to their white _ wives a colored mistress or an dlegitimate daugh ter This alsoexplains the special prejudice which the adies of the higher classes…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 18 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 12 delightful reality around us Though thirty thousand slaves had but lately been turned loose upon a white population oefless than three thousand instead of meeting with scenes of disorder what were…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 19 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … ents men who take the place of the quondam drivers though their province is totally different They merely direct the laborers in their work employing with the loiterers the stimulus of per…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 20 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 7s 4 from St Johns and contains 940 acres The mansion stands on a rocky cliff overlooking the estate and commandine a wide view of the island In one direction spreads a…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 21 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … ANTI would not be so likely when they ultimately ob jained freedom to feel grateful and conduct them selves properly The reflection that they had been cheated out of their liberty for…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 22 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 16 estate had almost totally failed on account of the droughi being reduced from one hundred and fifty hogsheads the average crop to fifleen His provision grounds had yielded almost nothing The…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 23 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … Tt was delightful to witness the change which had been wrought in this planter by the abolition of slavery Although accustomed for years to command a hundred human beings with absolute authority…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 24 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 1s given by men who reside in different parts of the island and have little communication with each other 2d They all speak exclusively of the ad vantages to the master and…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 25 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … ANTIGUA d gnly slumbered As the sun went down the full moon arose only less luminous and gradually the Wee began to light up their beaming fires The work of the day…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 26 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 20 form erect in the vigor of immortal youth amidst the patriarchs of past generations After breakfast we took leave of the kindheart ed missionaries whose singular devotedness and delightful spirit won…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 27 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … ANTIGUA em Liberty had broken upon them like the arsting forth of the sun to the watchman on his udnight tower During the session the missionhouse was irown open to us and…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 28 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … The speakers on this occasion were two plan ters a Wesleyan missionary and ourselves All advocated the doctrine of total abstinence The first speaker a planter concluded by saying that it was…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 29 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … itonsand a half of heathen who instead of bread received stones and scorpions instead of the Bible bolts and bars instead of the gospel chains and scourgings instead of the hope of…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 30 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 24 scale Jiighly creditable to this Free enlightened and evangelized colony The Speaker then placed the phial in the cavity of the rock When it was properly secured and the corner stone…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 31 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … rts the dawn of a cloudless day of light and ry which shall presently shine upon that vast ntinent when the song of universal freedom 1all sound in its length and breadth…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 32 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … by the ministers and a greater readiness to submit themselves to discipline is manifested by the late slaves herethan by those who have always been a free people I am able to…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 33 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … rural negroes Many have joined the Tem anse Society and many act on teetotal prin les The only colored person cither black or own whom we saw drunk during a residence nine…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 34 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … persuasive ami the most compelling motives to in dustry obedience and submission Nothing could more plainly show the corrupt ing influences of slavery upon all within its reach than this spectacle of…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 35 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … ANTIGUA use had just been completed in the suburbs of e town capable of lodging a considerable num x of beneficiaries Itis designed to shelter those ho are diseased and cannot walk…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 36 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 30 tice with a facility worthy the countinehouse desk We put several inquirieson different parts of the process in order to test their real know edge to which we always received lear…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 37 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … ANTIGUA yto see themcoming up with their teachers the same proscribed hue to hear them read the ble answer with readiness the questions of their perintendent and Jift up together their songs…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 38 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 32 6 How many of the teachers were slaves prior to the first of August 1834 Thirteen 7 What were their opportunities for learning The Sunday and night schools and they have…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 39 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … And lieaven is our home Were all brothers sisters brothers Were sisters and brothers And heaven is our home The God of heaven is pleased to sce That little children all agree…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
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Image 40 of Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and … 34 other business or they may purchase land and become cultivators themselves though in either case they are of course liable to forfeit their houses on the estates 9th They may leave…- Contributor: Thome, James A. (James Armstrong) - Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace)
- Date: 1838
About this Item
Title
- Emancipation of the West Indies. A six months' tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the year 1837.
Names
- Thome, James A. (James Armstrong), 1813-1873.
- Kimball, J. Horace (Joseph Horace), 1813-1838, joint author.
Created / Published
- New York, The American Anti-slavery Society, 1838.
Headings
- - Slavery--West Indies
- - Antigua--Description and travel
- - Barbados--Description and travel
- - Jamaica--Description and travel
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 4, [v]-vi, [7]-128 p. 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- AC901 .W3 vol. 164
- AC901 .B7 vol. 23, no. 11 Copy no. undetermined.
- E449 .A62357 no. 7
Library of Congress Control Number
- 02017739
Online Format
- online text
- image