Danish West Indies

British  

plural noun

1. Name since 1917: Virgin Islands of the United States.  the former possession of Denmark in the W Lesser Antilles, sold to the US in 1917

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Example Sentences

Born in St. Thomas in what was then the Danish West Indies, Pissarro was sent to school in the Paris suburbs at age 12, but declined upon his return five years later to take up his father’s profession as a merchant.

From The Wall Street Journal

St. John was part of the Danish West Indies, where slavery ended in 1848.

From Seattle Times

Slavery in the Danish West Indies was abolished in 1848.

From Seattle Times

The daughter of a white Danish seamstress and a Black cook from the Danish West Indies, Larsen spent her early years in an interracial sliver of Chicago where all kinds of people commingled in saloons and brothels, far from the buttoned-up neighborhoods of elite white and elite Black society.

From New York Times

In his 1992 book, “Slave Society in the Danish West Indies,” the author and professor Neville A.T.

From New York Times