THOME, James A., and Joseph Horace KIMBALL. Emancipation in the West Indies... New York: 1838. 

THOME, James A. (1813-1873), and Joseph Horace KIMBALL (1813-1838). Emancipation in the West Indies: A Six Months' Tour of Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica in the Year 1837. New York: The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838.

8vo (216 x 133 mm). (Spotting throughout.) Contemporary pebbled quarter cloth over marbled boards (front hinge partially split, one-inch section of top spine missing, rubbing).

FIRST EDITION. The American Anti-Slavery Society was formed in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Organized largely in response to the 1828 publication of Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, Nat Turner's uprising of 1831, and the nullification crisis of the same year, its most prominent members included Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Susan B. Anthony, John Greenleaf Whittier, George T. Downing, and Charles Lenox Redmond. As part of its efforts to present to the world a vision of other examples of successful emancipation movements, in 1836 the organization commissioned the Reverend James A. Thome and editor of the Herald of Freedom J. Horace Kimball to the West Indies and from there to Antigua, Barbados, and Jamaica. The resulting work, Emancipation in the West Indies, served as an important abolitionist text. The AASS was formally dissolved in 1870, following the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.