Joseph Henry Stuart
Joseph H. Stuart, also known as J. H. Stuart (1854–1910), from the British West Indies, settled in Colorado and in 1891 was the second black lawyer that practiced law. In 1895, he became the second African American legislator in the state's history, after Rep. John T. John T. Gunnell, Gunnell. He worked on a bill to ensure equal access to public places, regardless of a person's race. The bill passed but was not very effective in practice due to racial discrimination and lack of resources to enforce the law. Before coming to Denver, he was an educator in South Carolina and a lawyer in Kansas. Early life and education Joseph H. Stuart was born in 1854 in the British West Indies. He graduated from Codrington College in Barbados, after which he moved to South Carolina. He attended the Cedar Hall Academy and he became a teacher. Stuart received his law degree in 1877 from the University of South Carolina. At the time, there were just a few decades after the American Civil War, ...
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British West Indies
The British West Indies (BWI) were colonized British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Guiana (now Guyana) and Trinidad and Tobago. Other territories include Bermuda, and the former British Honduras (now Belize). The colonies were also at the center of the transatlantic slave trade, around 2.3 million slaves were brought to the British Caribbean. Before the decolonisation period in the later 1950s and 1960s the term was used to include all British colonies in the region as part of the British Empire.
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