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Emancipation in the U.S. Virgin Islands 150 years of freedom, 1848-1998 / Arnold R. Highfield, editor.

Title
Emancipation in the U.S. Virgin Islands 150 years of freedom, 1848-1998 / Arnold R. Highfield, editor.
Publication
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands : Emancipation Commission in collaboration with the Virgin Islands Humanities Council, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Highfield, Arnold R.
  • Virgin Islands Emancipation Commission.
  • Virgin Islands Humanities Council
Description
80 p. : 1 facsim.; 26 cm.
Alternative Title
Emancipation in the Virgin Islands
Subject
  • Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States Virgin Islands
  • Slavery > United States Virgin Islands > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "This booklet has been published by the History Committee of the Committee of the Emancipation Commission to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Emancipation in the United States Virgin Islands, July 3, 1998, with support from the Virgin Islands Humanities Council."--P. 2.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Editor's preface / Arnold R. Highfield -- Freedom in Frederiksted / Richard A. Schrader -- A chronology of slavery and emancipation in the history of the Danish West Indies / Svend E. Holsoe -- Emancipation and the new social order: views from the upper class / Marilyn F. Krigger -- Emancipation in hemispheric perspective / Lauren Larsen -- Political and economic aspects of emancipation / Malik Sekou -- A selection of historical documents relating to emancipation in the Danish West Indies / George F. Tyson -- An annotated bibliography / Arnold R. Highfield.
ISBN
1886007101
OCLC
  • 46804867
  • SCSB-12535009
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library