It may be coincidental, but the juxtaposition of Virgin Islands Emancipation Day July 3 and American Independence Day July 4 has become an annual marker of the link between the two cultures.
📸: At the time of the 1917 census, federal officials described the harbor at Charlotte Amalie as one of the best in the Lesser Antilles. (U.S. Census Bureau photo)
It may be coincidental, but the juxtaposition of Virgin Islands Emancipation Day July 3 and American Independence Day July 4 has become an annual marker of the link between the two cultures.