The Danish slave trade and its abolition / / Erik Gøbel.

• Superior document: Studies in Global Slavery, Volume 2
• VerfasserIn: Gøbel, Erik,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in global slavery ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Volume and Composition of the Slave Trade and the Trade Cargoes /; Transatlantic Slave Trade Shipping /; Slave Trade in the Danish West Indies and in Asia /; Prelude in Denmark Prior to 1792 /; Ernst Schimmelmann /; The Slave Trade Commission and Its Report, 1791 /; The Abolition Edict, 1792 /; Transitional Period, 1792–1802 /; Developments after 1803 /; Conclusion /; The Slave Trade Commission’s Report, 28 December 1791 /; Appendix A to the Report: Specification of Ships Departed from the Gold Coast /; Appendix B to the Report: Slaves Bought at Danish Settlements on the Gold Coast, 1777–89 /; Appendix C to the Report: Danish Slave Trade Cargo, about 1790 /; Appendix D to the Report: Number of Negroes on Saint Croix, 1780–90 /; Appendix E to the Report: Negroes on Saint Croix Plantations Indebted to the King, Listed by Gender /; Appendix F to the Report: Negroes on Saint Thomas and Saint John Plantations Indebted to the King, Listed by Gender /; Appendix G to the Report: Negroes on Plantations on Saint Croix Belonging to Count von Schimmelmann’s Family Trust /; Appendix H to the Report: Negroes on Plantations on Saint Croix Belonging to Count von Schimmelmann’s Family Trust, Listed by Gender /; The Abolition Edict, 16 March 1792: Danish National Archives, Collection of Printed Ordinances /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004330569
• ISSN: 2405-4585
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Erik Gøbel.

In The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition , Erik Gøbel offers an account of the well-documented Danish transatlantic slave trade. Denmark was the seventh-largest slave-trading nation with forts and factories on the Gold Coast and a colony in the Virgin Islands. The comprehensive Danish archival material provides the basis for Gøbel’s descriptions of the volume and composition of the slave trade and trade cargoes, as well as the shipping and conditions on board along the Middle Passage. Attention is also paid to the 1791 Danish Slave Trade Commission report and the final decision to abolish the slave trade altogether.