Slave society in the Danish West Indies : St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix /
Hall, Neville A. T.
Slave society in the Danish West Indies : St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix / Neville A.T. Hall ; edited by B.W. Higman. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992. - xxiv, 287 p. ; 24 cm. - Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-275) and index.
Empire Without Dominion: The Danish West Indies, 1671-1848 -- The Doom of the Almighty: Slaveowning Ideology -- Part and Parcel of Property: Slaves and the Law in the 18th Century -- The Rural Milieu: Slavery on the Plantations -- The Urban Milieu: Slavery in Christiansted, Frederiksted and Charlotte Amalie -- An Oasis of Humanity: Independent Slave Activity -- Maritime Maroons: Grand Marronage -- An Intermediate Sort of Class: The Emergence and Growth of the Freedman Population -- The Rights and Privileges of Rational Creatures: The Freedman Petition of 1816 -- Strangers Within the Gate: Emigre Freedmen in the 19th Century -- Religion and Enlightenment: Education, Amelioration and the Road to Abolition -- The Victor Vanquished: Emancipation and Its Aftermath
0801844738
92006844
Slavery--History.--Virgin Islands of the United States
Slaves--Social conditions.--Virgin Islands of the United States
HT 1119 / H178s 1992
306.3/62/09729722
Slave society in the Danish West Indies : St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix / Neville A.T. Hall ; edited by B.W. Higman. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992. - xxiv, 287 p. ; 24 cm. - Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-275) and index.
Empire Without Dominion: The Danish West Indies, 1671-1848 -- The Doom of the Almighty: Slaveowning Ideology -- Part and Parcel of Property: Slaves and the Law in the 18th Century -- The Rural Milieu: Slavery on the Plantations -- The Urban Milieu: Slavery in Christiansted, Frederiksted and Charlotte Amalie -- An Oasis of Humanity: Independent Slave Activity -- Maritime Maroons: Grand Marronage -- An Intermediate Sort of Class: The Emergence and Growth of the Freedman Population -- The Rights and Privileges of Rational Creatures: The Freedman Petition of 1816 -- Strangers Within the Gate: Emigre Freedmen in the 19th Century -- Religion and Enlightenment: Education, Amelioration and the Road to Abolition -- The Victor Vanquished: Emancipation and Its Aftermath
0801844738
92006844
Slavery--History.--Virgin Islands of the United States
Slaves--Social conditions.--Virgin Islands of the United States
HT 1119 / H178s 1992
306.3/62/09729722