British West Indies

plural noun

a term formerly used for the possessions of Great Britain in the West Indies. Compare West Indies ( def 2 ).

British West Indies

a former name for the states in the Caribbean that are members of the Commonwealth: the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; along with the islands which remain as United Kingdom dependencies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands

It was otherwise in the British West Indies, where the whites were overshadowed by a more than sixfold population.

Besides 5.7 per cent of the 365 came from the British West Indies.

Our lands, like those of the British West Indies, would become almost valueless for the want of laborers to cultivate them.

In the British West Indies, where slaves became apprentices in 1834, they are still "bought."

Immediate emancipation worked admirably in the British West Indies.

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