A history of the Virgin Islands of the United States / by Isaac Dookhan ; with an introduction by Richard B. Sheridan.
Publication details: Kingston, Jamaica : Canoe Press, 1994.Description: 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9768125055
- 9789768125057
- 972.97/22 20
- F2136.5 .D66 1994
- 15.85
Originally published: Epping : Caribbean Universities Press for the College of the Virgin Islands, 1974.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical geography -- Pre-Columbian inhabitants -- Danish colonial expansion -- Colonial government under company rule -- Plantation agriculture during slavery -- The trade emporium until 1850 -- Piracy in the Virgin Islands -- The Danish West Indian slave trade -- The slave society -- Slave protest and emancipation -- The religious denominations -- Constitutional reforms under the crown -- The aftermath of slavery -- The sale and purchase -- The American dilemma -- Modern times.
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