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Mitchell, Keith Claudius

(Encyclopedia)Mitchell, Keith Claudius, 1946–, Grenadian political leader. Educated in the West Indies and the United States, he taught in Grenada and the United States and then worked as a consultant in Washingt...

Bridgetown

(Encyclopedia)Bridgetown, city (2014 approx. pop. 110,000), capital, commercial center, and chief port of Barbados, West Indies. It is, in addition, a tourist and hea...

Valley, The

(Encyclopedia)Valley, The, town (2001 pop. 1,169), capital of the British dependency of Anguilla, in the West Indies. Located in the approximate center of the island, it is Anguilla's main town and its administrati...

Basseterre

(Encyclopedia)Basseterre, town (1990 est. pop. 15,500), capital of St. Kitts and Nevis, on St. Kitts island, West Indies. It is one of the chief commercial depots of the Leeward Islands. Sugar refining is the leadi...

Saint Thomas, island, Virgin Islands

(Encyclopedia)Saint Thomas, island (2010 pop. 51,634), 32 sq mi (83 sq km), one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, West Indies. Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, and a campus of the Univ. of the Vi...

creole

(Encyclopedia)creole crēōlˈyō [key] [probably from crío=child], term originally applied in West Indies to the native-born descendants of the Spanish conquerors. The term has since been applied to certain desce...

Chalkley, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Chalkley, Thomas chôˈklē [key], 1675–1741, Quaker mariner and missionary preacher, b. England. He made his home after 1701 in Philadelphia. He traded chiefly with the West Indies, navigating his ...

Labat, Jean Baptiste

(Encyclopedia)Labat, Jean Baptiste zhäN bätēstˈ läbäˈ [key], 1663–1738, French Dominican missionary. Sent to the West Indies, he explored the islands, he was largely responsible for the permanent establish...

African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

(Encyclopedia)African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Methodist denomination. It was founded in 1796 by black members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New York City and was organized as a national body in 1821...

Castries

(Encyclopedia)Castries kästrēˈ, käsˈtrēs [key], town (2021 est. metro. area pop. 184,706), capital and commercial ...