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April 20, 2017

St. Thomas, West Indies, 1844

St. Thomas was a Danish plantation colony in the West Indies. It had been captured by the British during the Napoleonic Wars, but was returned to Denmark during the Nineteenth Century.
The Illustrated London News, 18 May 1844. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.

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