Yesterday was the anniversary of the slave emancipation in the British West Indies, This took place on the 1st of August, 1834, and, from the year after that period, the colored people of this ...

Commemoration of Negro Emancipation in the British West Indies.; ORATION BY FRED DOUGLASS. Grand Festival of Colored Folks at Poughkeepsie. Share full article. Aug. 3, 1858.

The state of the British West Indies is one of peculiar interest at the present day, both in a social and an economical point of view. The great questions opened by the emancipation of the slaves ...

Editor’s note: On this 176th anniversary of the emancipation of all the enslaved people in the Virgin Islands, The Daily News is reprinting an excerpt of the speech given by ...

ASI Book Talks are collaborative events that bring together core and affiliate faculty from Africana Studies as well as undergraduate majors for a book discussion on a monthly basis during the ...

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. VOL. IX.—MARCH, 1862.—NO. LIII. THE emancipation of an enslaved race seems, at first thought, a most uncertain and perilous undertaking. To do away ...

At 5:20 p.m. one day last week, a delegate burst from a closed hall in Jamaica’s University College of the West Indies, where the British West Indies federation conference was meeting, and cried ...

The author traces the effects of Moravian mission work on the slave culture of the Danish West Indies. She describes the colonization of the islands, including the context of its religious foundations ...

In the 1820s, Elizabeth Heyrick felt disgust over Britain’s enslavement of people on islands such as Barbados and Jamaica in the West Indies, where large sugar plantations produced virtually all ...

A new nation—the British Caribbean Federation—was born in London last week as 16 delegates from the British West Indies signed a list of agreements over disputed points in its draft ...