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Selected records of the Danish West Indies, 1672-1917 essential records concerning slavery and emancipation.
- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration.
- Series:
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world.
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Virgin Islands of the United States--History--Archival resources.
- Slavery.
- Slave rebellions--Virgin Islands of the United States--Records and correspondence.
- Slave rebellions.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Virgin Islands of the United States--Records and correspondence.
- Enslaved persons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (11,013 images).
- Other Title:
- Selected records of the Danish West Indies, 1672-1917
- Summary:
- Covering critical chapters in the history of slavery and emancipation in the Dutch West Indies, the documents in this collection consist of administrative records, manumission papers, indentures, census data, and additional statistical materials, as well as legal papers, government reports, and letters, providing unique perspectives on the Atlantic slave trade in this region.
- Contents:
- General Records
- Censuses
- Plantations
- Slave auctions
- Slave loans
- Royal blacks
- 1848 slave revolt
- Emancipation and beyond.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the original from the National Archives.
- OCLC:
- 785645825
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