Slavery in the Danish West Indies

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"The result of a long-term project conducted by the Society of Virgin Islands Historians in collaboration with various institutions such as the University of the Virgin Islands and the Royal Archives in Copenhagen, this excellent research tool lists and annotates: 1) historiographical studies on slavery and slave trade (legal regime, conditions, education, emancipation, religion, rebellions, free blacks, and free coloreds); 2) documentary sources and fiction; 3) location of materials listed, both in the Virgin Islands and abroad. Especially useful on 18th-century narratives by Danes. Detailed subject and author indexes"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.