West Indies

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Record Data

Place Unit Type

Region

Containing Unit

Caribbean

Events

Date		Type
09/30/1866 - 10/02/1866	A deadly hurricane hits the Caribbean, first the Turks and Caicos and then Nassau in the Bahamas.	Crime/Disasters
10/28/1867 - 10/29/1867	A late season hurricane smashes islands in the Lesser Antilles and then kills hundreds in Puerto Rico.	Crime/Disasters

People

Places

Name	Type
Barbados	Nation
Nassau, West Indies	City or Town

Documents

Date	Title
07/14/1857	New York Times, “Alleged Renewal of the Slave-Trade,” July 14, 1857
08/06/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The British West India (Black) Regiments,” August 6, 1859
05/13/1860	New York Herald, “The Quarantine Question and the Approaching Summer,” May 13, 1860
05/14/1860	New York Herald, “Activity of the African Slave Trade,” May 14, 1860
05/29/1860	Chillicothe (OH) Scioto Gazette, “"The Awful Horrors of the Middle-Passage,"” May 29, 1860
12/28/1860	Anna H. Richardson to William Still, December 28, 1860

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