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.

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 ...

In the book, Gabriel analyzes the public discourse in the United States between abolitionists and anti-abolitionists in the memory of the emancipation of the British West Indies. During the 1830s, the ...

Our kinfolk of the British Virgin Islands and English West Indies had been freed by act of emancipation on August 28, 1833, and many of us flock to the BVI on the first Monday in August to ...

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced displacement, cultural erasure, and enslavement of millions of African and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The legacy of Earl Lovelace is already part of us. Across novels, plays, poems, essays, and addresses, he has worked to rouse ...

While the federal Juneteenth holiday marked its fourth observance as a U.S. federal holiday, people in the Virgin Islands ...

The end of slavery in the Danish West Indies had several factors that contributed to the end of this institution of human bondage and degradation.

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 ...