Act No. 7158 (28th Legislature) — An Act commemorating laborers on Fireburn Day as a day to be revered and remembered in the Virgin Islands ---0---
ACT NO. 7158 BILL NO. 28-0159 TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS Regular Session 2010 An Act commemorating laborers on Fireburn Day as a day to be revered and remembered in the Virgin Islands ---0--- WHEREAS, after the emancipation of enslaved Africans within the Virgin Islands, work continued on the plantations; and WHEREAS, competition from European sugar-beet growers and other sugar producing countries had a negative impact on the Virgin Islands' plantation-based economy during the nineteenth century; and WHEREAS, after the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of the slaves, plantation growers employed contract immigrant laborers and former slaves. …
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