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.

Photographers
Photographers

Author: Peter E. Palmquist

Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781887694186

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A Guide to Sources for the History of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands), 1671-1917
A Guide to Sources for the History of the Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands), 1671-1917

Author: Erik Gøbel

Publisher: University Press of Southern Denmark

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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The Danish West Indies - the islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix - were a traditional Caribbean colony, characterized by sugar production, trade, and shipping. The colony was under the Danish flag from 1671 until 1917, since which time the islands have been known as the United States Virgin Islands. The archival sources for the history of the three islands are first and foremost in the Danish National Archives. These records are exceptionally comprehensive and their research potential is enormously rich, as the Danes have been meticulous in documenting almost everything that happened in the colony and in preserving the records. The Danish archival sources are therefore unique historical resources today. This book is a thorough guide to the vast Danish West Indian material in Denmark.

Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies
Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies

Author: Isidor Paiewonsky

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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Through first-hand accounts and loads of illustrations, this slim (and large-print) volume documents the growth of slavery, beginning with the Danes' first efforts at colonization in the early 17th century, to the establishment of a full-blown slave economy, and through the abolition movement in the 19th century. The text is minor, the illustrations great. For a general audience. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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.)

Slave Society in the Danish West Indies
Slave Society in the Danish West Indies

Author: N. A. T. Hall

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9789764100294

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This volume is an account of the development and destruction of slavery in St Thomas, St John and St Croix, the Caribbean islands which today comprise the US Virgin Islands. The book sees slavery as fundamental to the entire fabric of colonial society, and pays particular attention to the social and political life of the whites and freedmen in interaction with the slaves.

Saint Croix 1770-1776
Saint Croix 1770-1776

Author: Robert Amandus Johnson

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1425970087

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Robert Amandus Johnson chronicled this period of the history of Saint Croix from 1770-1776 and the remarkable relationship of the Island to the emerging American Nation. It relates, what is believed to be, the first foreign recognition of the American "Stars and Stripes." This occurred in Christiansted, St Croix in June 1776, prior to Congressional approval of the Declaration of Independence. This early "Stars and Stripes" was being flown from the American Brig "Nancy." The American Revolutionary Financier, Robert Morris had chartered the Brig "Nancy," on behalf of Congress, to acquire critically needed gunpowder in the Danish West Indies. Mr. Johnson resides in St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, his adopted home since first arriving as an Ensign in the U.S Navy in 1959.