Case Study: James A. Thome
Importance of ImmediatismThome went with 31 fellow debaters to Oberlin College, graduating in 1836. He worked as a lecturer until the American Anti-Slavery Society commissioned him to go to the British West Indies, where blacks were free. The resulting book, Emancipation in the West Indies (1838), made “the American Anti-Slavery Society [shift] from its advocacy of gradual emancipation to a demand for ‘unconditional freedom without delay’ ” (The Smithsonian Institution).
Thome became a professor, writer and pastor. He died March 4, 1873. |