Caribbean Colonial Statistics from the British Empire, 1824-1950 - Volumes
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Virgin Islands, 1843-1887
The main European countries who laid claim to the Virgin Islands were the Spanish; these Islands would then be settled by the Danes, Dutch, French and English over the years that followed. The English took the Dutch territories in 1672, during the third Anglo-Dutch war. Slaves on the British Virgin Islands were freed in 1838, after 4 years of apprenticeship. The United States purchased the Danish Virgin Islands in 1917.... Read more →
