Act No. 8543 (34th Legislature) — An Act acknowledging and commemorating the memory of Mary Thomas, Axeline Salomon, Mathilde McBean, Susanna Abramson, and other estate labor
ACTNO. 8543 BILL NO. 34-0146 THIRTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS Regular Session 2022 An Act acknowledging and commemorating the memory of Mary Thomas, Axeline Salomon, Mathilde McBean, Susanna Abramson, and other estate laborers before, during, and after the Labor Uprising of 1878 or “Fireburn” and their courageous pursuit of human rights, freedom from serfdom variant, and improvement of labor conditions in the former Danish West Indies, and condemning the excessive, cruel, and unjust punishment meted out to the laborers by the Danish Government; making a $250,000 appropriation from the Community Facilities Trust Account to the Virgin Islands Council of the Arts to coordinate the erection of a monument to honor the Fireburn Queens and estate laborers who took part in the “Fireburn” Labor Uprising WHEREAS, Danish rulers formed a Board of Trade in 1668 and secured a commercial treaty with Britain providing for the unmolested settlement of uninhabited islands in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles; WHEREAS, Denmark seized the islands of St. Thomas in 1672 and St. …
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