| 单词 | British West Indies |
| 例句 | Still, wandering the grounds that served as a naval base while Admiral Nelson helped defend the British West Indies from French incursion perhaps demanded some quiet reflection. Seeing the Whole of Antigua 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z That ancestor, John Gladstone, was the father of 19th Century Prime Minister William Gladstone and one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies. Charlie Gladstone: Rishi Sunak is completely wrong on slavery 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z John Gladstone - the father of William Gladstone, one of the UK's most revered prime ministers - was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies. Gladstone family urged to pay slavery reparations to Jamaica 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z The 19th Century prime minister was the son of John Gladstone, one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies. William Gladstone's family apologises for role in slave trade 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z William was the son of John Gladstone, who was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies. William Gladstone's family to apologise for slavery links 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Another sizable group of Loyalists went to the British West Indies, taking enslaved people with them. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z John Moore and Colin Campbell, whose statues are both found in George Square, were in the British Army and had roles in upholding the system of chattel slavery in colonies of the British West Indies. Glasgow's statues have connections to the Atlantic slave trade 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Parliament passed a bill to end the slave trade in the British West Indies in 1807. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he had placed the money in an unregistered tax-free bank in the British West Indies. Ethel Gabriel, trailblazing producer and executive at RCA Records, dies at 99 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z I knew that it was part of the British West Indies and the only English-speaking country in South America. How Scotland erased Guyana from its past 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The British colonies in America grew rapidly as an economic force in the early 17th century, selling rice, wheat, corn and cod to the British West Indies, where the goods fed a huge slave population. Tariffs Made America Great 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Nordegren purchased the site for $12.25 million in 2011 and razed an existing home to make way for the custom estate, which is built in the British West Indies architectural style. Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods’s Ex-Wife, Lists Home for $49.5 Million 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Anguilla is part of the British West Indies. A look at the Caribbean islands Hurricane Irma is turning into a checkerboard of disaster 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z It was during a family vacation in Anguilla in the British West Indies that the idea for a company took shape. From the land of sun and fun comes the ultimate selfie accessory: fancy pool floats 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Kyle’s doctorate was in leadership from Charisma University, a school in the British West Indies that lacks accreditation in the U.S. Bowser taps new St. Elizabeths CEO after previous one resigned under scrutiny 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z For the next two years, he signed on with ships carrying indentured laborers from Calcutta, India, to the sugar plantations of the British West Indies. The oil man and his dictators: Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco and the forgotten fascist history of Texaco 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z In 1782, American soldiers were given daily rations of four ounces of whiskey, which was supplanting rum as the nation’s most popular liquor because it didn’t require molasses from the British West Indies. George Washington, the Whiskey Baron of Mount Vernon 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z During his first year, the DEA ran Operation Dinero, in which a fake bank was created in the British West Indies to catch drug dealers laundering their profits. Thomas A. Constantine, tough-talking DEA chief in 1990s, dies at 76 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z Commodities Futures Trading Commission, show that the self-described insomniac appeared to juggle millions of dollars at a time through the global banking system between the British West Indies, the Middle East and Switzerland. Documents show flash crash trader's frenetic business dealings 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The saga of his connection to two 21st-century lawmakers goes back to his birth around 1755 on Nevis, an island in what was then the British West Indies. Unlikely duo of Va. senators claim connections to Hamilton 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z But at last, after eleven years of more violent struggle than it had taken to suppress the African slave-trade, Slavery itself was abolished in the British West Indies forever. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z The causes are emigration to the British West Indies, and devastation by the cholera. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z The first break in the monotony of this dreadful voyage came when we reached St. Lucia, in the British West Indies. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z Malta, Brazil, the British West Indies—a general junction of the whole of the combined force of the enemy, in order to cover a descent upon Ireland. Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of his Services in the Canadas, including a reply to the strictures on his Military Character, Contained in an Article in The Quareterly Review 2011-10-11T02:01:07.053Z Confirmation Denied, Anguilla Resort to Modify Plan The Viceroy Anguilla Resort and Residences on Anguilla in the British West Indies failed to persuade the bankruptcy judge to sign a confirmation order approving its reorganization plan. Fairfield Sentry, Lehman, Nebraska Book, Idearc: Bankruptcy 2011-09-21T12:44:03Z New Parcels Post regulations are noted with the United Kingdom, British West Indies, British Guiana and Mexico, by which the rate is made 12 cents per pound or fraction, with a limit of 11 pounds. Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery 2011-09-18T02:00:28.007Z In 1813, when Robert was six years old, his father left Virginia, bound for the British West Indies, seeking health and a new grip on life. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z West Indian planters.—In the British West Indies, the production of sugar profoundly influenced social and economic conditions. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z “It’s an island of the British West Indies,” answered Dunston Porter. Dave Porter on Cave Island A Schoolboy's Mysterious Mission 2011-06-15T02:00:23.660Z It contains the graves of 596 soldiers from the Home Country, 55 from Canada, 20 from Australia, 3 from New Zealand, and 2 of the British West Indies Regiment. The King's Pilgrimage 2011-05-11T02:00:18.833Z In 1833, a bill was passed by the British government, by which, for a compensation of one hundred millions of dollars, eight hundred thousand slaves in the British West Indies received their liberation. History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z It was unknown in the British West Indies while slavery existed there. White Slavery in the Barbary States 2011-02-10T03:00:50.200Z Emigration.—There was a constant migration of small landholders from the British West Indies to the French and Dutch islands, to Guiana and to the North American colonies. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z The British West Indies, as also Guiana, make British gold legal tender. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z The project on Anguilla, part of the British West Indies, went into receivership in February. Cypress Equities May Buy Sillerman’s Defaulted Caribbean Resort 2010-12-27T17:31:34Z The British West Indies, especially Barbados, have continued to be the main source of labour supply. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise ANTIGUA, an island in the British West Indies, forming, with Barbuda and Redonda, one of the five presidencies in the colony of the Leeward Islands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" If an alliance were made at once with France, she might assist in cutting off British supplies and might divert enemy forces by an attack on the British West Indies. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z The ships were in no condition to cross the Atlantic, and by the royal decree the British West Indies were closed against them, while, of course, they dare not trust the mercy of the Spaniards. Donalblane of Darien He visited most of the British West Indies, and has given picturesque descriptions of them all. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 On the 1st of August 1842 he delivered at Lenox, Massachusetts, an address celebrating the anniversary of emancipation in the British West Indies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The British West Indies were thus saved, and the people of Jamaica erected a statue to the gallant admiral. The West Indies and the Spanish Main Provided that United States vessels should have access to ports in the British West Indies, in return for a similar privilege granted to British vessels in the ports of the United States. The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History Then here's Elmer Allen, late of Jamaica—British West Indies, not Long Island—all he's got is a master's, also in sociology. Black Man's Burden In 1902 the total area under cotton cultivation in the British West Indies was 500 acres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" Her glory was the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies, and her shame the degraded and outraged condition of those very miners and factory men. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years This was a great blow to the British West Indies. The West Indies and the Spanish Main He was nephew to the governor of New Providence, one of the British West Indies, and seems to have been in Florida rather in search of adventure than for any clearly ascertainable purpose. Andrew Jackson It was this new-born sensitiveness that brought to so sudden a close the attempted apprenticeship of the British West Indies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 In the British West Indies, the slaves are dispersed among eighteen or twenty islands, where the military and naval power of the mother country might be easily applied to quell insurrections. The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835 His last work in his office was a discourse which he delivered in our village church on the 1st of August, on the emancipation of the slaves in the British West Indies. Records of Later Life Thus, as Ralegh was the father of English colonisation, so his beloved Guiana became the parent of the British West Indies. The West Indies and the Spanish Main Of the deposits that have been developed on a commercial scale, the Trinidad lake in the British West Indies and Bermudez deposit in Venezuela are best known. American Rural Highways But the distinguished gentleman from South Carolina did not mention that the peace establishment of the British West Indies costs England two million pounds annually! An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans St. Domingo is struck out of the map of civilized existence, and the British West Indies will shortly be so. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The active part women took in the Polish and German revolutions and in favor of the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, all taught their lessons of woman's rights. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I In July, 1783, an order in council proclaimed that henceforth all trade between the United States and the British West Indies must be carried on in British-built ships, owned and navigated by British subjects. The Critical Period of American History I beg leave again to recommend to your attention the subject of a commerce with the British West Indies, to supply the defects of our treaties with France and with Holland. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII The power to separate mothers and children, husbands and wives, is exercised only in the British West Indies, and the republic of the United States! An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Our lands, like those of the British West Indies, would become almost valueless for the want of laborers to cultivate them. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject SADLIER'S Catholic Directory, Almanac, and Ordo, for the Year of our Lord 1886; with full official reports of all dioceses, vicariates, prefectures, etc., in the United States, Canada, British West Indies, Ireland, England and Scotland. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 This conferred on Americans the privilege, long and urgently desired, of direct trade between their own country and the British West Indies on the same terms as British ships, though in vessels of limited size. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 They also complained of the impressment into the British service of seamen from on board American vessels, and the exclusion of American shipping from the trade to the British West Indies. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. There are much fewer white men in the British West Indies than in our slave States; hence the increase of the mulatto population is less rapid. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans We shall begin with Jamaica, which is by far the largest and most valuable of the British West Indies. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject It was of the highest importance to avert or delay a rupture with Spain; for the condition of the British West Indies was most critical. William Pitt and the Great War In Savannah we see a church growing under the labors of George Liele, then we find Liele and Amos in the British West Indies, leading large congregations of Negro Baptists. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 We have purposely avoided any discussion on gradualism as an element in emancipation, because we consider its evil results to have been demonstrated in the British West Indies. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays The slave codes of the United States and of the British West Indies were originally almost precisely the same; but their laws have been growing milder and milder, while ours have increased in severity. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Prior to the emancipation act in the British West Indies, the famous Exeter Hall Junto sent out a number of emissaries of the East India Company to Jamaica, in the garb of missionaries. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject News that Spain had made peace with France in a highly suspicious manner weakened this second effort, it being necessary to safeguard the British West Indies from a probable attack by the Spaniards. William Pitt and the Great War Amid the changes wrought in the closing days of the Revolutionary War, this Negro preacher had his lot cast in New Providence, Bahama Islands, British West Indies. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Orders in council at once closed the ports of the British West Indies to all staple products which were not carried in British bottoms. Union and Democracy One to three dollars per passenger from steamboat companies carrying to ports other than in Canada, Newfoundland, the United States of America, and British West Indies. The Stamps of Canada It reduced American shipping trading with England, it drove American vessels from the British West Indies, and, owing to the impossibility of the States retaliating separately, it did not diminish the British market in America. The Wars Between England and America Fear of a revolt of the slaves had induced Ministers to send out reinforcements, so that, early in 1793, 19 battalions were in the British West Indies. William Pitt and the Great War There were churches of this character in Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, the British West Indies, Canada, and in far-off Africa, before the close of the eighteenth century. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Doubtless these tales lost nothing in the telling, but the unimpeachable fact remains that scores of American ships were seized and libeled in admiralty courts set up in the British West Indies. Union and Democracy I had read Clarkson's and Wilberforce's writings, and I knew the history of the struggle in England for the abolition of the slave trade, and slavery in the British West Indies. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 They were also ready to admit American vessels of less than seventy tons to the British West Indies, provided the United States agreed not to export West India products for ten years. The Wars Between England and America On March 4, the Cyclops reported at Barbadoes, British West Indies, where she put in for bunker coal. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Dr. Arnold, in one of his letters, says he imagines the British West Indies have never recovered from the taint of buccaneer blood. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Prior to the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, the militia were always called out under arms on the Christmas holidays, in order to prevent any attempts at insurrection among the slaves. An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries. While colonists, the Americans had carried on a free and gainful trade with the British West Indies. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Mr. Hawke rehearsed the British armament in the Western Hemisphere, and counted the guns in Halifax, Montreal, Quebec, Esquimalt, to say nothing of the Bermudas, the Bahamas, and the British West Indies. The President A novel Notwithstanding innumerable disputes over boundaries, fisheries, and fur seals, trade with the British West Indies and Canada, and questions of neutral rights and obligations, we have had unbroken peace for more than a hundred years. From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy On the other hand, the British West Indies have of late years greatly declined from their former prosperity. The Leading Facts of English History Now, the British West Indies are forever exempted from all danger of insurrection, while the danger of a servile war in America will, until slavery is abolished, every year increase. An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries. Continental Europe waxed wealthy while the British West Indies sank into decay. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries Lieutenant Jack Benson, reading, discovered that the "Juanita" had again been sighted on the same course, headed for some port in the British West Indies. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam At first tobacco was the only one of the "enumerated articles" which seriously concerned the American colonies, the rest coming mainly from the British West Indies. History of the United States Point them to the increase of happiness and prosperity in the British West Indies, since the act of Emancipation. Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America In Grenada, British West Indies, and some other districts, shade is entirely dispensed with, and the trees are planted at about eight feet centres, thus forming a denser foliage. The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa New England having become a foreign nation, her ships were denied admittance to the ports of the British West Indies, with which for years a nourishing trade had been conducted. American Merchant Ships and Sailors Evidently she is headed for one of the British West Indies. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam The Molasses Act.—Not content with laws enacted in the interest of English merchants and manufacturers, Parliament sought to protect the British West Indies against competition from their French and Dutch neighbors. History of the United States The first Negro paper was issued in New York in 1827, while later emancipation in the British West Indies brought some cheer in the darkness. The Negro But the chief external American trade was done illicitly, by 'underground,' with the British West Indies and with Canada itself. The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 We now know that the offer was despatched a week after he had ordered Missiessy to ravage the British West Indies. The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) We have given, perhaps, a rather dry account of the effects of emancipation on a portion of the British West Indies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 "The Young American."—Address on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies.—Publication of the Second Series of Essays.—Contents: Ralph Waldo Emerson The cod, mackerel, and herring fisheries—chiefly the first—were the staple industry of Nova Scotia, and kept up a large trade with the British West Indies, whence sugar, molasses and rum were imported. Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 Two others, awkward and threatening, but not immediately pressing, were the impressment of British seamen, real or pretended, from American ships, and the exclusion of American vessels from the trade of the British West Indies. George Washington, Volume II Rum could be obtained from the British West Indies more cheaply than brandy from across the ocean. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 Antigua was almost the first of the British West Indies to emancipate her slaves, and this she had the wisdom to do summarily and at once, without probation or apprenticeship. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 For instance, it provided that cotton should not be exported from the United States, and that American commerce with the British West Indies should be greatly restricted. A Short History of the United States While colonists could not trade directly with foreign ports, they were given a monopoly for their timber, fish, and provisions in the profitable markets of the British West Indies. Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 To this end they have instituted a series of movements which have made this year more fruitful in anti-slavery triumphs than any other since the emancipation of the British West Indies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 In the British West Indies it is apparent from occasional documents that the trend was similar. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime The British West Indies present an example of the safety and advantages of the measure in a community, where the whites are a mere handful compared to the colored population. A Visit to the United States in 1841 By it our merchants were allowed for the first time to trade with the British West Indies, and some compensation was made for the damage done by the capture of ships in the West Indies. A School History of the United States By far the largest number of these, seventy-three percent, came from the West Indies and most of them were from the British West Indies. The Black Experience in America He wrote a pamphlet, "On the Present State of Slavery in the British West Indies and in the United States of America; and on the Importation of Sugar from British Settlements in India." The Grand Old Man Colored families from St. Thomas and the British West Indies and descendants of American negroes make up a considerable proportion of the population, so that more English is heard here than Spanish. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future In proof of this may be cited the trade with Hayti, and the immense increase in the import of manufactured goods into the British West Indies since emancipation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 In 1733 Parliament laid a tax of 6_d_. a gallon on molasses and 5_s_. per hundredweight on sugar brought into this country from any other place than the British West Indies. A School History of the United States The state of the British West Indies is one of peculiar interest at the present day, both in a social and an economical point of view. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 I have not met a man, either in the Old World or in the New, that so thoroughly understood the state of the British West Indies at the present time as he does. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States "Married but not parsoned" is the way in which such unions are referred to in some of the British West Indies. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future In the British West Indies, the negroes of the windward coast are called Mandingoes, a name which is here taken as descriptive of a peculiar race or nation. Thaumaturgia To this end they have instituted a series of movements which have made this year more fruitful in anti- slavery triumphs than any other since the emancipation of the British West Indies. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe American ships were positively forbidden to trade in the British West Indies, and American vessels sold in England could not be used in British colonial trade. The United States of America, Part 1 The public square, with its stately eighteenth-century buildings, is the only architectural feature I ever saw in the British West Indies. Here, There and Everywhere Never in the history of the British West Indies—must we again state—was there any law or usage establishing superiority in privileges for any section of the community on account of colour. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas During the nineteenth century the coastwise shipping of the United States was often forced to seek the shelter of the British West Indies. The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power It was on record in September, 1805, that fifty American ships had been condemned in England and as many more in the British West Indies. The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors Tarred cordage from England came next, with coffee from the French West Indies, dried fish from Canada, distilled spirits from the British West Indies, in order. The United States of America, Part 1 Southern planters who had determined at all hazards to perpetuate the institution of slavery were peculiarly sensitive on account of what was taking place in Spanish America and in the British West Indies. An Anti-Slavery Crusade; a chronicle of the gathering storm Great Britain was the best customer, with the French West Indies next, and then the British West Indies. The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest |
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