That Denmark was once a slave-trading and slaveholding empire remains relatively little known outside of the former Danish West Indies, known since 1917 as the US Virgin Islands. Nor have the Danes been eager to acknowledge a chapter of history rather at odds with national self-understanding.
The Historic Strike That Transformed the Danish West Indies
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