"colony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Denmark was the first colonial power to mint coins specifically for a Caribbean colony and began striking those coins in 1840.
- A final Courish attempt to establish a Caribbean colony involved a settlement near modern Toco on Trinidad.
- In 1838, Dominica became the only British Caribbean colony to have an African-controlled legislature in the 19th century.
- He believed that the English ban on slavery in the British Isles should be extended to the North American and Caribbean colonies.
- Sweden then forced a settlement with Great Britain because it had been guaranteed the island which was strategically close to its other Caribbean colony.
- The French were considered allies as they had abolished slavery in their Caribbean colonies in 1794.
- It looked transported from some French Caribbean colony, all lacy ironwork and thunder and soft patois.
- The British immediately opened up trade with their North American and Caribbean colonies, causing a rapid transformation of Cuban society.
- Slavery was abolished in Spain's main Caribbean colony, Cuba, in 1888, over fifty years after the practice was outlawed across the British Empire.
- The abolition of slavery in 1834 enabled Dominica by 1838 to became the only British Caribbean colony to have a Black-controlled legislature in the 19th century.
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