A History of the Virgin Islands of the United StatesCanoe Press, 1994 - 321 頁 The Virgin Islands in the course of centuries have witnessed the coming and going of Ciboney, Arawak and Carib peoples, European discovery by Christopher Columbus, temporary occupation by pirates and adventurers, colonization, commercial and plantation development by Danes and other North European settlers, African slavery and its abolition, American purchase, colonial government, social and political change, and in recent years remarkable tourist and industrial developments.
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Historical Geography | 8 |
PreColumbian Inhabitants | 15 |
Danish Colonial Expansion | 31 |
Colonial Government under Company Rule | 51 |
Plantation Agriculture during Slavery | 69 |
The Trade Emporium until 1850 | 87 |
Piracy in the Virgin Islands | 106 |
The Danish West Indian Slave Trade | 120 |
Slave Protest and Emancipation | 161 |
The Religious Denominations | 181 |
Constitutional Reforms under the Crown | 200 |
The Aftermath of Slavery | 218 |
The Sale and Purchase | 243 |
The American Dilemma | 265 |
Modern Times | 284 |
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