Danish West Indies

Finally, on the verge of another slave revolt, the King of Denmark abolished slavery in 1848 in what was now called the Danish West Indies.

U.S. Virgin Islands, United States resort colony, bought for $25 million; 2nd in a 21st Century American Colonies series 2007

She was born in Chicago to a Danish mother and an mixed-race father originally from the Danish West Indies.

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As Hutchinson notes, In the Danish West Indies...racial classifications differed dramatically from those in the United States.

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She was born in Chicago to a Danish mother and an mixed-race father originally from the Danish West Indies.

Harvard University Press Publicity Blog : 2006

As Hutchinson notes, In the Danish West Indies...racial classifications differed dramatically from those in the United States.

Harvard University Press Publicity Blog : 2006

It was illegal in the Danish West Indies to designate a person's race on official forms such as census and church records.

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It was illegal in the Danish West Indies to designate a person's race on official forms such as census and church records.

Harvard University Press Publicity Blog : 2006

EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN, Arabic scholar, student of African affairs, writer, diplomat, educator, and one of the most forceful thinkers of the nineteenth century, was born at St. Croix, Danish West Indies.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

Peter Jackson was born in the Danish West Indies, not in Australia, as is generally believed.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

He was born at San Juan, Puerto Rico, and was educated partly on that island and partly in the Danish West Indies.

World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947