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    24. Emancipation in the U.S. Virgin Islands 150 years of freedom 1848-1998

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Highfield,Arnold R. (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1999
    Published:
    St. Croix, V.I.: Virgin Islands Emancipation Commission
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    80 p, Contents: Editor's preface / Arnold R. Highfield -- Freedom in Frederiksted / Richard A. Schrader -- A chronology of slavery and emancipation in the history of the Danish West Indies / Svend E. Holsoe -- Emancipation and the new social order: views from the upper class / Marilyn F. Krigger -- Emancipation in hemispheric perspective / Lauren Larsen -- Political and economic aspects of emancipation / Malik Sekou -- A selection of historical documents relating to emancipation in the Danish West Indies / George F. Tyson -- An annotated bibliography / Arnold R. Highfield

    30. History and song in the Virgin Islands

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cuney-Hare,Maud (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    April, 1933
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Crisis
    Journal Title Details:
    40(4) : 83-84, 108, 118
    Notes:
    Includes an account of the 1848 slave insurrection of Saint Croix, when more than five thousand slaves “stormed the fort and demanded freedom,” later burning the town down." (Lynda Koolish, "Maud Cuney-Hare," Oxford Companion to African American Literature)