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Slavery in the Danish West Indies : a bibliography / Arnold R. Highfield and George F. Tyson. PRINT

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands : The Virgin Islands Humanities Council , [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 96 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0916611140
  • 9780916611149
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Slavery in the Danish West Indies.DDC classification:
  • 016.3269729722 WI Hig
Contents:
Locator code key -- General -- Denmark and the African context -- The slave trade and its abolition -- The conditions of slavery -- Resistance to slavery -- Emancipation and the Emancipation Rebellion -- Free Blacks and Free Coloreds -- Education and religion -- Legal considerations and technical matters -- Documentary sources -- Fiction -- Miscellaneous.
Review: "The result of a long-term project conducted by the Society of Virgin Islands Historians in collaboration with various institutions such as the University of the Virgin Islands and the Royal Archives in Copenhagen, this excellent research tool lists and annotates: 1) historiographical studies on slavery and slave trade (legal regime, conditions, education, emancipation, religion, rebellions, free blacks, and free coloreds); 2) documentary sources and fiction; 3) location of materials listed, both in the Virgin Islands and abroad. Especially useful on 18th-century narratives by Danes. Detailed subject and author indexes"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
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Includes index.

Locator code key -- General -- Denmark and the African context -- The slave trade and its abolition -- The conditions of slavery -- Resistance to slavery -- Emancipation and the Emancipation Rebellion -- Free Blacks and Free Coloreds -- Education and religion -- Legal considerations and technical matters -- Documentary sources -- Fiction -- Miscellaneous.

"The result of a long-term project conducted by the Society of Virgin Islands Historians in collaboration with various institutions such as the University of the Virgin Islands and the Royal Archives in Copenhagen, this excellent research tool lists and annotates: 1) historiographical studies on slavery and slave trade (legal regime, conditions, education, emancipation, religion, rebellions, free blacks, and free coloreds); 2) documentary sources and fiction; 3) location of materials listed, both in the Virgin Islands and abroad. Especially useful on 18th-century narratives by Danes. Detailed subject and author indexes"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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