In this book David Knight Sr. takes the reader through the history of Water Island from a historic overview with pre-colonial information, and then early European presence to Water Island under Company Rule, as a Plantation Estate run by a Free Mulatto, and the periods post Emancipation to the years before the islands were purchased by the United States. Paperback, 223 pages.
 
About the Author:
 
David W. Knight Sr. is a cultural resource consultant, historian and author. He has spent much of his life exploring the primary records of the Virgin Islands and Danish West Indies in libraries, repositories, and archives throughout the Caribbean and abroad. His professional goal has always been to bring the rich historical legacy of the Virgin Islands into sharper focus through broad-based public access, education, and awareness. Mr. Knight currently serves on both the St. Thomas-St. John Committee of the Virgin Islands State Historic Preservation Commission and the Presidential Advisory Council of the University of the Virgin Islands.

Softcover book