Some months ago, a few years after my father's death, while going through some old papers in boxes, we made a startling discovery: that our great-great grandfather, Arthur Thome, was a slave-owner and the first Kentuckian to free his ( approximately fifteen) slaves, between 1832 and 1838, and that his oldest son, our great uncle, James Armstrong Thome, was a very prominent and influential abolitionist, author of Emancipation In the West Indies, a book which profoundly influenced the American abolition movement toward immediate rather than gradual freeing of slaves, and advisor to Abraham Linco
Learning/Gaining Inspiration from the White Abolitionists
