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enslaved workers and insurgents

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enslaved workers and insurgents

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Denmark emancipates enslaved people in the Danish West Indies

📅 3 July 1848

After an uprising and mass mobilization on St. Croix, von Scholten proclaimed emancipation. The decree followed collective action by enslaved people and ended legal slavery in the islands, though...