Ports of globalisation, places of Creolisation
Subtitle: Nordic possessions in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade
By: edited by Holger Weiss
Series: Studies in global slavery -- volume 1
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9789004302785; 9789004302792
Subjects: Colonies; Slavery; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: portals of early modern globalisation and Creolisation in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade / Holger Weiss; title: The entangled spaces of Oddena, Oguaa and Osu: a survey of three early modern African Atlantic towns, ca.1650-1850 / Holger Weiss; title: 'A fine flintlock, a pair of ditto pistols and a hat with a gold galloon': Danish political and commercial strategies on the Gold Coast in the early 18th century / Fredrik Hymm Svensli; title: Slave trade, slave plantations and Danish colonialism / Per Hernces; title: Pre-colonial visions of a colony: the construction of the Pligtarbejder in a proposed Danish West African colony / Jonas Moller Pedersen; title: The question of rights in a colour-conscious empire: the Danish West Indies and the global age of revolutions (1800-1850) / Christian Damm Pedersen; title: The overly candid missionary historian: C.G.A. Oldendorp's theological ambivalence over slavery in the Danish West Indies / Anders Ahlbiick; title: Freedom, autonomy, and independence: exceptional African-Caribbean life experiences in St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies, in the middle of the 18th century / Louise Sebro; title: Magic, Obeah and law in the Danish West Indies, 1750s-1840s / Gunvor Simonsen; title: Thirty-two lashes at quatre piquets: slave laws and justice in the Swedish colony of St. Barthelemy ca.1800 / Fredrik Thomasson.