The West Indies in 1837; being the Journal of a Visit to Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, for the Purpose of Ascertaining the Actual Condition of the Negro Population of those Islands

8vo, original blind-stamped cloth, expertly recased, retaining the original spine and endpapers, two large folding maps, 476 pp. Some rubbing to extremities, and some foxing throughout, bookplates on front pastedown. Overall very good. This work is a “revised and corrected” version of a book that was published on the evils of the apprentice system in the British West Indies in the 1830s. A few weeks before the Abolition Act of 1833, the British government established a system of indentured servitude on the Islands that basically kept them as slaves. Sturge and Harvey, both prominent Quaker anti-slavery activists, were among the new system’s most vocal critics.