Emancipation in the U.S. Virgin Islands 150 years of freedom 1848-1998
By: Arnold R. Highfield, editor
Contributors: Virgin Islands Emancipation Commission; Virgin Islands Humanities Council
Publisher: Emancipation Commission
Published: 1999
Place of publication: St. Croix, V.I
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781886007109
Subjects: Slaves; Emancipation; Slavery; History
Other titles: Emancipation in the Virgin Islands
Notes: "This booklet has been published by the History Committee of the Committee of the Emancipation Commission to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Emancipation in the United States Virgin Islands, July 3, 1998, with support from the Virgin Islands Humanities Council."--P. 2.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Editor's preface  -- Arnold R. Highfield; title: Freedom in Frederiksted  -- Richard A. Schrader; title: A chronology of slavery and emancipation in the history of the Danish West Indies  -- Svend E. Holsoe; title: Emancipation and the new social order: views from the upper class  -- Marilyn F. Krigger; title: Emancipation in hemispheric perspective  -- Lauren Larsen; title: Political and economic aspects of emancipation  -- Malik Sekou; title: A selection of historical documents relating to emancipation in the Danish West Indies  -- George F. Tyson; title: An annotated bibliography -- Arnold R. Highfield.