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The Danish West Indies (Danish: Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Virgin Islands (Danish: Danske Jomfruøer) or Danish Antilles were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas with 83 square kilometres (32 sq mi); Saint John (Danish: St. Jan) with 49 square kilometres (19 sq mi); and Saint Croix with 220 square kilometres (85 sq mi).
Map detail showing Danish Map of the company's site in Copenhagen, 1754. West Indies Company's headquarters and dock in Christianshavn, Copenhagen. In March 1659, the Danish Africa Company was started in Glückstadt by the originally Finnish Hendrik Carloff; two Dutchmen, Isaac Coymans and Nicolaes Pancras; and two German merchants, Vincent Klingenberg and Jacob del Boe.
Danish immigration to the Americas began with Denmark's colonization with the arrival of the Danish West Indies Company to the Virgin Islands in the 1660s. A small number of Danes continued to migrate to the North American continent, where the Dutch colony of New Netherlands and the religious haven of Pennsylvania also housed early Danes.
Subsequently, Henriette had Jonatan arrested, claiming that he was her property and that she had intended to sell him in the West Indies. Jonatan and his lawyer argued before a Copenhagen court under judge Anders Sandøe Ørsted (who would later become Prime Minister of Denmark) that although slavery was still legal in the Danish West Indies ...
In 1754, the Danish West Indies were sold by Danish West India Company to King Frederick V, becoming royal Danish-Norwegian colonies. Hereafter, St. Croix was governed by the Governors-General of the Danish West Indies.
An estimated 300 enslaved people escaped to Puerto Rico from the Danish West Indies through these means. [37] By 1778, it was estimated that 3,000 enslaved Africans had been brought to the Danish West Indies yearly. [38] In 1789, enslaved people constituted 88% of the islands' population.
Centuries in the Danish West Indies (1754–1917) — a former colony of the Danish colonial empire in the Caribbean, the present day United States Virgin Islands. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Hans Ditmar Frederik (Fritz) Feddersen (2 July 1805 – 12 May 1863) was a Danish civil servant and politician. He served as Governor of the Danish West Indies from 1851 to 1855. In 1860, he was elected as Member of Folketinget in Copenhagen's 3rd Constituency.
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