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| Total population | |
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| 2.1% | |
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| English[citation needed] | |
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| Christianity[citation needed] | |
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| White Caribbeans |
White Kittitians and Nevisians are people of Saint Kitts and Nevis of European descent. Approximately 2.2% of the population of Saint Kitts and Nevis was European as of 2001.[citation needed][needs update]
History
[edit]Before the arrival of Europeans, the island was initially inhabited by the Arawak who came from South America. The Arawaks were killed off by warlike Caribs. Christopher Columbus was the first European who sighted the island in the year 1493. The indigenous population died of European diseases. Although the island was first claimed by Spain, Saint Kitts and Nevis had no gold and riches in order to attract the Spanish.[1]
The first Europeans to visit the islands were the Spanish.[2] A substantial portion of the white population in Saint Kitts and Nevis claims descent from Irish and Scottish prisoners exiled to the islands during the rule of Oliver Cromwell.[3] By 1805, 1,500 whites lived on the island of Saint Kitts and 1,300 lived on Nevis.[4] The English were the first Europeans to colonize St. Kitts.[5] When Europeans visited the island of Nevis, the island was mostly inhabited by indigenous Caribs and Arawaks.[6]
Notable people
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- William Skinner (1700–1780), Chief Royal Engineer
- Rawlins Lowndes (1721–1800), Governor of South Carolina
- Daniel Roberdeau (1727–1795), signatory of the Articles of Confederation
- Thomas Mathews (1742–1812), General of the American Revolutionary War
- Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), Founding Father of the United States
- Frances Nelson (1758–1831), wife of Admiral Horatio Nelson
- Thomas Cottle (1761–1828), lawyer and planter
- Joseph Gerrald (1761–1828), political reformer
- Alfred Stephen (1802–1894), Chief Justice of New South Wales
- William Henry Smith (1826–1890), Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
- Henry Spencer Berkeley (1851–1918), Attorney General of Fiji
- James Alfred Dunn Podd (1855–1886), Baptist preacher
- Arthur Anslyn MBE (1944–2017), marine expert
- George Astaphan (1946–2006), physician
- Cloey Uddenberg (born 2002), footballer
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Minahan, James B. (14 March 2013). Ethnic Groups of the Americas. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-61069-164-2.
- ^ Thomas, Emel (8 May 2014). Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles. A&C Black. ISBN 9781623564308.
- ^ Rodriguez, Junius (1997). The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 370. ISBN 0874368855.
- ^ Kidd, W (1833). Four Years' Residence in the West Indies: During the Years 1826, 7, 8, and 9. Oxford University Press. p. 370. ISBN 0874368855.
- ^ "Saint Kitts and Nevis". AACRAO Electronic Database for Global Education (EDGE).
- ^ "The Island of Nevis People and Places".
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