Negotiating enslavement
Subtitle: perspectives on slavery in the Danish West Indies
By: [edited by] Arnold R. Highfield & George F. Tyson
Contributors: Society of Virgin Islands Historians. Conference
Publisher: Antilles Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: St. Croix, U.S.V.I
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780916611101
Subjects: Colonies; Congresses; Slavery; History
Notes: Papers originally presented at various annual meetings of the Society of Virgin Islands Historians.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Slavery and the law in the Danish West Indies  -- Poul Erik Olsen; title: Enslavement, rebellion and emancipation in Africa: the Ghanaian experience  -- Akosua Adoma Perbi; title: Cultural marronage and the development of St. Johnian identity  -- Karen Fog Olwig; title: The journeys of Qvou, son of Eikoe of Osu in Guinea, and Banna, son of Naimbanna of Robana, Sierra Leone, containing a description of their abduction from Africa and their enslavement in St. Croix  -- Poul Erik Olsen; title: Coping with enslavement: a women's network in Christiansted  -- Svend E. Holdoe; title: Domingo "Mango" Gesoe an improbable life  -- Arnold R. Highfield; title: From slave to planter: George Francis of St. John--Compliance or complicity   -- David Knight; title: Reaping the whirlwind: ex-slave planters in post-emancipation St. Croix, Danish West Indies  -- George F. Tyson; title: Enslaved Africans in Denmark and the quest for freedom  -- Per Nielsen; title: The Danish edict of 16th March 1792 to abolish the slave trade  -- Erik Goebel; title: The manumission process in the Danish West Indies, 1800-1848  -- Elizabeth Rezende; title: Aspects of education during slavery in the Danish West Indies  -- Charles W. Turnnbull; title: Danish historians and emancipation: the Peter Von Scholten myth  -- Svend Green-Pedersen; title: The Slave rebellion of 1823 in Tortola, British Virgin Islands  -- Michael E. O'Neal; title: the 1848 St. Croix Slave Rebellion: the day of the rebellion  -- Svend E. Holsoe; title: 1848 and beyond: overview of the struggle for self-determination in the U.S. Virgin Islands -- Marilyn F. Krigger.