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The Danish West Indies (Danish: Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Virgin Islands (Danish: Danske Jomfruøer) or Danish Antilles were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with 83 square kilometres (32 sq mi); Saint John (Danish: St. Jan) with 49 square kilometres (19 sq mi); and Saint Croix with 220 square kilometres (85 sq mi).
From 11 November 1808 until 25 July 1814 Carl was governor of Bornholm and Christiansø, and was the governor of the Virgin Islands in the Danish West Indies from 1820 to 1822. [1] He died, 66 years old, in Copenhagen on 12 July 1834. He is buried in Holmens Cemetery.
Leidesdorff was born in 1810 on the island of Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies to William Leidesdorff Sr., a white Danish merchant, and Anne Marie Spark, a creole woman. [2] As his parents were not legally married, Leidesdorff was considered illegitimate until July 18th, 1837, when a Crucian court formally recognized his birth, allowing ...
One of the first records of Hans Jonatan after 1802 is in the diary of the Norwegian cartographer Hans Frisak for August 4, 1812: The agent at the trading post here is from the West Indies, and has no surname ... but calls himself Hans Jonatan. He is very dark-skinned and has coal-black, curly hair. His father is European but his mother a negro.
Following the abolition of slavery in Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies in 1848, plantation owners on the island sought to find an alternative to African slave labour. Danish Ambassador M. de Bille sent an official request to import Indian indentured laborers, under similar conditions as the French, to the British Government in November ...
Sugar plantations in the United States Virgin Islands — Caribbean sugar plantations active in the Danish West Indies (1754–1917), before the United States purchased them from Denmark in 1917 The main article for this category is Sugar production in the Danish West Indies .
In 1754, the Danish West Indies were sold by Danish West India Company to King Frederick V, becoming royal Danish-Norwegian colonies. Hereafter, St. Croix was governed by the Governors-General of the Danish West Indies.
Pages in category "1800s in the Danish West Indies" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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