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This is the third volume in Hansen's classic slave trade trilogy. When America was discovered and plantations established, slave labour became the principal export commodity from the Gold Coast. This book is about the history of Danish/Norwegian participation in the trans- Atlantic slave trade. It describes the organisation of the trade, the participants, the challenge, and the link with the West Indies to where the slaves were transported for work on the sugar plantations. It describes show more Danish purchase of islands in the West Indies, and traces how the decline in Dutch and British trade, and the abilities of the Danish administration led to a golden age in the Danish slave trade in the 1770s and 1780s. In that period, the Danish share in the total slave trade exceeded ten percent; and the decline in the trade with the growth of a new European consciousness, heralded abolition. Coast of Slaves, the first volume of the trilogy, was originally published in Danish in 1967. This English translation is edited to provide explantions about inaccessible references as well as established factual misrepresentations. show lessTags
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- 1967
- Epigraph
- Noch hab ich mich in Freie nicht gekämpft. Goethe
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- Vi havde et fort i Afrika. Det ligger dernede endnu, bygget paa et lavt klippefremspring, hvor kysten ligesom sætter en fod ud i havet.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Og saa ser du ikke mere. Der var engang, du mente, det var nok.
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