Leaflets from the Danish West Indies

Leaflets from the Danish West Indies

Author: Charles Edwin Taylor

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-06-04

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780282251819

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Excerpt from Leaflets From the Danish West Indies: Descriptive of the Social, Political, and Commercial Condition of These Islands St. Thomas is not only extremely picturesque, but is one of the best ports of refuge in the West Indies. Its population is about and' is composed Of foreigners and natives. Many Of the latter, who form the majority, are very well educated, and occupy important positions in its commerce and local administration. It is among the intelligent foreign and Creole residents Of this cosmo politan island, and upon its principal street, that the popular physician, who is the subject of this sketch, has taken up his abode. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873

Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873

Author: Lomarsh Roopnarine

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-24

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 331930710X

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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Denmark’s solitary experiment with Indian indentured labor on St. Croix during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book focuses on the recruitment, transportation, plantation labor, re-indenture, repatriation, remittances and abolition of Indian indentured experience on the island. In doing so, Roopnarine has produced a compelling narrative on Indian indenture. The laborers challenged and responded accordingly to their daily indentured existence using their cultural strengths to cohere and co-exist in a planter-dominated environment. Laborers had to create opportunities for themselves using their homeland customs without losing the focus that someday they would return home. Indentured Indians understood that the plantation system would not be flexible to them but rather they had to be flexible to plantation system. Roopnarine’s concise analysis has moved Indian indenture from the margin to mainstream not only in the historiography of the Danish West Indies, but also in the wider Caribbean where Indians were indentured.


Runaway Virgins: Danish West Indian Slave Ads 1770-1848

Runaway Virgins: Danish West Indian Slave Ads 1770-1848

Author: Enrique Corneiro

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-09-19

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0359101453

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Runaway Virgins: Danish West Indian Slave Ads 1770-1848 uses more than 250 slavery related newspaper ads to help shine light on what life must have been like for the enslaved people of the U.S. Virgin Islands (former Danish West Indies). More than 300 specific individuals are identified and subjects related to runaway slaves are highlighted (i.e. punishment, laws, free men/women, country of origin, children, pardons, etc.)


The Danish West Indies In Black And White

The Danish West Indies In Black And White

Author: Enrique Corneiro

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-10-15

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1387298577

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500 black and white images that depict the people, places and events that transformed the Danish West Indies into the U.S. Virgin Islands. The United States purchased the islands of the Danish West Indies from Denmark in 1917 and renamed the islands the Virgin Islands of the United States of America. This book uses 500 black and white images to help show what life was like in the islands before and after becoming an American territory.


Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket

Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket

Author: Robin Sabino

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-07-05

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 900423070X

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Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashioning of heritage languages. Robin Sabino draws on her community relationships, her fieldwork with a last speaker, and research from a range of disciplines, to advance a revisionist history that elucidates the African linguistic resources used to create community in a land those who were transhipped did not choose and from which they could not return. In parallel fashion, the narrative locates the partial appropriation of creole features by the colony’s Euro-Caribbean community in the emergence of local identity. It also traces the replacement of Dutch and Virgin Islands Dutch Creole with their English counterparts. Includes more than 300 unique sound records of the last native speaker.