An island of the sea. Descriptive of the past and present of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. With a few short stories about Bluebeard's and Blackbeard's castles. Second edition.
by TAYLOR, Chas. Edwin
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St. Thomas, Published by the author at Taylor's Book-store, 1896.Original pictorial green cloth. With many photographic plates. 120; 19 pp. + 16 pp. with advertisements.First published in 1895; with autograph dedication by the author - At the end: A few words about St. Croix. (The garden of the West Indies). 19 pp. - The Danish colony in the Caribbean, consistis of the islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix. They have belonged to the United States as the Virgin Islands. The islands quickly became a base for pirates attacking ships in the vicinity. Trading African slaves was part of the transatlantic slave trade by Denmark-Norway around 1671, when the Danish West India Company was chartered, until 1 January 1803, when the 1792 law to abolish the slave trade came into effect.
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- Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NL)
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- An island of the sea. Descriptive of the past and present of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. With a few short stories about Bluebeard's and Blackbeard's castles. Second edition.
- Author
- TAYLOR, Chas. Edwin
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- Used
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- Hardcover
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