Editor and Translator Arnold R. Highfield with Kristoffer F. Bøegh The Government official and writer Georg Hjersing Høst arrived on the island of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies…
on the Present Conditions of the Negroes on the Schimmelmann Plantations and the Means of Ameliorating Them by Arnold R. Highfield Charles Vanderbourg (1769–1827) traveled to the Danish West Indies…
By Arnold R. Highfield The present volume is in effect a 40-year memoir by Virgin Islands historian Professor Arnold R. Highfield, who dedicated his career at the University of the Virgin Islands…
by Christopher Highfield Time passes rapidly, and history is swiftly written and quickly forgotten. Those who were present at the time find it difficult to believe that the construction of…
by Arnold R. Highfield Virgin Islands historian Arnold R. Highfield gives us here a number of fascinating studies, drawn from his research and writing on Crucian history. Aficionados of local…
by Arnold R. Highfield In spite of the French name, few are aware of the long period of history from 1650 to 1733, when the island of Sainte Croix (Ay-Ay)…
by Arnold R. Highfield The author of Time Longa' Dan Twine presents another intimate look at the history of the Virgin Islands, here pursuing the long past of the town…
by Arnold R. Highfield Time Longa' Dan Twine (Time's Longer than Twine) is an expression that reflects the wisdom of the people and culture of the Virgin Islands, meaning, in…
Edited by Arnold R. Highfield and George Tyson Slavery endured in the Danish West Indies from 1672 to Emancipation Day on July 3, 1848. During those 176 years, some 100,000…