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- proper noun historical A former colony of
Denmark in the Caribbean, so-named until it was sold to theUSA in 1917, since when it has been known as theUnited States Virgin Islands .
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Examples
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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.
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She was born in Chicago to a Danish mother and an mixed-race father originally from the Danish West Indies.
Reviews far and wide 2006
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As Hutchinson notes, In the Danish West Indies...racial classifications differed dramatically from those in the United States.
Reviews far and wide 2006
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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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It was illegal in the Danish West Indies to designate a person's race on official forms such as census and church records.
Reviews far and wide 2006
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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