Stawski, Scott. Denmark’s Veiled Role in Slavery in the Americas: The Impact of the Danish West Indies on the Transatlantic Slave Trade. (2020) [PDF]

Stawski, Scott. Denmark’s Veiled Role in Slavery in the Americas: The Impact of the Danish West Indies on the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Sept. 2020.

he legacy of Danish participation in the transatlantic slave trade is presented as that of a minor player in the practice who had an oversized positive influence on abolishing the slave trade. The current historiography estimates that Danish participation was less than 1% of the 12 million enslaved Africans transported to the Americas from 1501 to 1880. Through various grants of rights and privileges, Danish slaves were provided a better quality of life than their counterparts. In 1792, Denmark became the first colonial power to abolish their participation by announcing an end to the practice in 1803 and setting a standard for all colonial powers to follow. The results of the research and reported in this thesis shows this historiography to be inaccurate as to historical quantification and misleading as to historical legacy. New data is available on the scale of Danish participation. By applying a more informed paradigm to the empirical data, Danish participation in the transatlantic slave trade is six times the scale of what has been historically reported making Denmark the fifth largest slave-trading nation within the Americas. This new historical quantification coupled with an analysis of the underlying rationale for Denmark’s abolition of their participation in the slave trade suggests a different historical legacy for Denmark than what is currently promulgated.

PDF: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37365426.

Gøbel, Erik. The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition. (2016)

Gøbel, Erik. The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition. Brill: 2016.

‘In The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition, Erik Gøbel offers an account of the well-documented Danish transatlantic slave trade. Denmark was the seventh-largest slave-trading nation with forts and factories on the Gold Coast and a colony in the Virgin Islands. The comprehensive Danish archival material provides the basis for Gøbel’s descriptions of the volume and composition of the slave trade and trade cargoes, as well as the shipping and conditions on board along the Middle Passage. Attention is also paid to the 1791 Danish Slave Trade Commission report and the final decision to abolish the slave trade altogether’–Provided by publisher.

https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004330566.

Cramer, Nina. ‘Hvad Bliver Synligt i Tomrummet?: Kritiske Fabulationer Og Video-Vodou i Jeannette Ehlers’ Black Magic at the White House’. (2018) [PDF]

Cramer, Nina. ‘Hvad Bliver Synligt i Tomrummet?: Kritiske Fabulationer Og Video-Vodou i Jeannette Ehlers’ Black Magic at the White House’. Kunst Og Kultur, vol. 101, Oct. 2018, pp. 133–148.

Denne artikel undersøger omhyggeligt udarbejdede lakuner i Jeannette Ehlers’ videoværk Black Magic at the White House (2009). Her udgør det visuelle felt på én gang en arena for kunstnerkroppens udviskning og stedet, hvor en konfrontation med kolonihistoriske udeladelser finder sted. Artiklen argumenterer for, at dette opnås gennem en fabulerende kunstnerisk praksis, hvor grænserne mellem det autentiske og inautentiske utydeliggøres.

doi:10.18261/issn.1504-3029-2018-03-02.

PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328435281_Hvad_bliver_synligt_i_tomrummet_Kritiske_fabulationer_og_video-vodou_i_Jeannette_Ehlers%27_Black_Magic_at_the_White_House.

Blaagaard, Bolette B. ‘Whose Freedom? Whose Memories? Commemorating Danish Colonialism in St. Croix’. (2011)

Blaagaard, Bolette B. ‘Whose Freedom? Whose Memories? Commemorating Danish Colonialism in St. Croix’. Social Identities, vol. 17, no. 1, Routledge, Jan. 2011, pp. 61–72. Taylor and Francis+NEJM,

The article addresses the issues of cultural and archival historical representations as they are presented in Danish journalism about historical events taking place in the former colonies of Denmark, the current United States’ Virgin Islands (USVI). The (post)colonial relationship between Denmark and USVI has been overlooked by Danish and ’western’-based scholars for quite some time. The article presents the case of a journalistically represented reenactment in the USVI commemorating the emancipation of the Danish slaves on the three colonial islands St. John, St. Croix, and St. Thomas in 1848. The case shows that journalists often depend on documented historical accounts rather than cultural knowledge, myths and legends, that may tell a different (his)story. Engaging journalism with feminist theory and postcolonial theory, the article discusses how this bias determines who gets to speak and who is silenced, that is, journalistic objectivity. Finally the article seeks to develop another way of thinking about postcolonial memory constructions in journalistic representations.

doi:10.1080/13504630.2011.531905.

Andersen, Frits, and Jakob Ladegaard. Kampen om de danske slaver: aktuelle perspektiver på kolonihistorien. (2017)

Andersen, Frits, and Jakob Ladegaard. Kampen om de danske slaver: aktuelle perspektiver på kolonihistorien. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2017.

Dansk slaverihistorie er ikke slut. Selvom det er 100 år siden, at Danmark solgte De Vestindiske Øer til USA, spøger slaveriet stadig. Arven fra kolonitiden er både velkendt og ukendt, fortrængt og forklaret, og det stiller krav til os om både viden og engagement.  Kampen om de danske slaver diskuterer den rolle, slaverihistorien spiller og bør spille i dag. Bogens forfattere udfordrer vanefortællingerne i den aktuelle, offentlige debat ved at følge sporene efter dansk slaveri i efterkommeres historier, arkiver og ruiner, sorte lakridser, kunst og litteratur. Med vidt forskellige synsvinkler og tolkninger bidrager de til den fortsatte diskussion om slaveriets plads i vores fælles historie, der hverken er sort eller hvid.

Indhold:

Frits Andersen og Jakob Ladegaard: Indledning

Gunvor Simonsen: Fortiden i nutiden

Pernille Ipsen og Hermann von Hesse: Døde rotter under Christiansborg

Frits Andersen: Slavefortællinger som flerstrenget erindring

Alex Frank Larsen: Den grumme arv—Interview med tre danske efterkommere af tidligere slaveejere

Jakob Ladegaard og Sine Jensen Smed: Oplyst slaveri?

Elisabeth Skou Pedersen: En spøgelseshistorie—Interview med kunstner Jeannette Ehlers

Mathias Danbolt: Mediestorme om kolonihistoriens aftryk i dansk visuel kultur

Hans Hauge: Slavesagen litterært betragtet

Nathalia Brichet: Genopbygning af en tidligere dansk plantage i Ghana

Jeff Klintø: Undervisning i slavehistorie

Astrid Nonbo Andersen: Erstatningskrav

Kasper og Anne Green Munk: At kende sandheden — Interview med Shelley Moorhead

Uddrag: http://samples.pubhub.dk/9788771845099.pdf.

https://unipress.dk/udgivelser/k/kampen-om-de-danske-slaver/

Andersen, Astrid Nonbo. ‘“We Have Reconquered the Islands”: Figurations in Public Memories of Slavery and Colonialism in Denmark 1948–2012’. (2013) [PDF]

Andersen, Astrid Nonbo. ‘“We Have Reconquered the Islands”: Figurations in Public Memories of Slavery and Colonialism in Denmark 1948–2012’. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, vol. 26, no. 1, Mar. 2013, pp. 57–76.

The fact that Denmark was deeply engaged in the practices of the slave trade and slavery from the seventeenth century to 1848 often goes unnoticed—even in Denmark. For this reason, a number of Danish scholars and artists have characterized Danish ignorance of the colonial past as repression. This article demonstrates that the colonial past has in fact never been repressed, but has instead been subject to figurations, as theorized by Olick (2007). The initial experiences of colonialism have been screened at different points in time rendering the past in versions very far from the actual historical events themselves. Recently, new claims for reparations for slavery and colonialism in the former Danish West Indies have challenged the existing notions of the colonial past in Denmark. These claims have not resulted in an official Danish politics of regret (Olick 2007) as witnessed in other former colonial states. Whereas, a radical break away from the earlier conceptions of the colonial past is demanded, instead new figurations and renarrations have been used to try to incorporate the new challenges to the historical imaginary into the older layers of memory without radically breaking away from it, creating somewhat surprising results that questions the notions of a uniform global memory and understanding of historical injustices.

doi:10.1007/s10767-013-9133-z.

PDF: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10767-013-9133-z.

Andersen, Astrid Nonbo. Ingen undskyldning : erindringer om Dansk Vestindien og kravet om erstatninger for slaveriet. (2017)

Andersen, Astrid Nonbo. Ingen undskyldning : erindringer om Dansk Vestindien og kravet om erstatninger for slaveriet. Kbh.: Gyldendal, 2017.

Undersøger den nutidige brug af og relation til vores koloniale fortid på Jomfruøerne (Dansk Vestindien) med fokus på kravet om en kompensation, som efterkommere af slaverne har rejst mod Danmark.

https://bibliotek.dk/da/work/870970-basis%3A53067077