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Danish West Indies
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Danish West Indies
pl n
(Placename) the former possession of Denmark in the W Lesser Antilles, sold to the US in 1917 and since then named the Virgin Islands of the United States
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Finally, at the beginning of World War I, the US realized the urgent necessity of having military bases in the Caribbean and quickly agreed to pay Denmark $25 million for all the Danish Virgin Islands.
The islands by Sullivan, Lynne / Virgin Islands Adventure Guide
While at one level Stinchcombe is correct to locate outside of the sugar islands the decisive forces that destroyed slavery as a social system, the discrete "paths to emancipation" cannot be understood apart from the initiatives of the slaves themselves, as the events of 1848 in Martinique and the Danish Virgin Islands or those of the 1880s in Cuba and Brazil amply attest.
Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political ... by Paquette, Robert L. / Journal of Social History
While at one level Stinchcombe is correct to locate outside of the sugar islands the decisive forces that destroyed slavery as a social system, the discrete "paths to emancipation" cannot be understood apart from the initiatives of the slaves themselves, as the events of 1848 in Martinique and the Danish Virgin Islands or those of the 1880s in Cuba and Brazil amply attest.
Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: the Political ... by Paquette, Robert L. / Journal of Social History
 
 
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