Caribbean

Caribbean and West Indies, 1857, zoomable map

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Record Data

Place Unit Type

Region

Containing Unit

North America

Events

Date span		Type
07/02/1848	Danish government plans a ten-year abolition in the Danish West Indies but local slaves demand immediate freedom	Slavery/Abolition
12/08/1857	American soldier of fortune William Walker is recaptured by the U.S. Navy	Military/Violent
11/12/1861	Union warship captures Confederate privateer off the Bahamas	Battles/Soldiers
11/27/1861	In Liverpool, the news of the interception and seizure of Mason and Slidell reaches England	US/the World
12/29/1861	Powerful British warship wrecked on a reef in the Bahamas	Crime/Disasters

Major Topics

People

Places

Contained places

Name	Type
Cuba	Nation
Danish West Indies (U.S. Virgin Islands)	Subnational Region
Dominican Republic	Nation
Dutch West Indies	Subnational Region
Haiti	Nation
Jamaica	Nation
Puerto Rico	State or Province
San Domingo (Haiti)	Nation
West Indies	Region

Documents

Subject

Date	Title
08/19/1860	New York Herald, “The Whereabouts of Walker,” August 19, 1860
04/22/1861	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Reorganization,” April 22, 1861
11/09/1861	John Slidell, James Murray Mason, George Eustis, J. E. McFarland to Charles Wilkes, USN, Protest at Seizure, November 9, 1861
11/16/1861	Charles Wilkes, USN to Gideon Welles, Final Report on the seizure of Mason and Slidell, November 16, 1861

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