British West Indies
a term formerly used for the possessions of Great Britain in the West Indies.: Compare West Indies (def. 2).
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How to use British West Indies in a sentence
It was otherwise in the British West Indies, where the whites were overshadowed by a more than sixfold population.
Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 5 (of 20) | Charles SumnerBesides 5.7 per cent of the 365 came from the British West Indies.
The Negro at Work in New York City | George Edmund HaynesOur lands, like those of the British West Indies, would become almost valueless for the want of laborers to cultivate them.
In the British West Indies, where slaves became apprentices in 1834, they are still "bought."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus | American Anti-Slavery SocietyImmediate emancipation worked admirably in the British West Indies.
The Slavery Question | John Lawrence
British Dictionary definitions for British West Indies
a former name for the states in the Caribbean that are members of the Commonwealth: the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; along with the islands which remain as United Kingdom dependencies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands
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