Danish Slave rebels to be honoured?

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  1. Esau

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    Mostly off-topic, but here is an interesting tidbit of related information I found in another old thread:
    The year 1651 also saw the Danes committed to begin an adventure in Guinea which would last over two hundred years. The plan was conceived in Glückstadt, a fortified city of Holstein on the Elbe (then part of Denmark), which had been renowned for its generous reception of Portuguese Jews. These seem to have taken the initiative in launching the Danish African slave trade.
    "The slave trade: the story of the Atlantic slave trade", 1440-1870, Hugh Thomas

    The Danish West Indies in the Caribbean later became the U.S. Virgin Islands.
    So it appears Denmark did historically have a tiny slice of the pie in the slave trade and plantation agriculture.

    And except among administrators, Danish was never a widely spoken language there. At times there were more speakers of Dutch, than Danish, and even more speakers of Spanish and English.
    In its heyday in the mid-19th century, the Jewish community made up half of the white population, many originating from Spain and Portugal, probably due to Jews being so dominant in international trade.
     
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