Introduction: The historiography of slavery in the Danish-Norwegian West Indies, c. 1950-2016.

Jensen, Niklas Thode; Simonsen, Gunvor

doi:10.1080/03468755.2016.1210880

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“…Much of the research on lives of enslaved in the Caribbean and particularly in the Danish West Indies has focused on broad themes like the plantation economy, demography, health care, or education. 18 The historian Neville A.T. Hall's work on slave society in the Danish West Indies has been of immense importance to the historiography of the region. His research not only shed light on the lives, experiences, and treatment of enslaved people, but he also provided a understanding of the complex social dynamics within these societies.…”

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Three Generations of Free Colored Women in St. Croix. 1750–1850

Sundsback

2023

Journal of Family History

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This paper explores the lives and agency of three generations free colored women on St. Croix, an island in the Danish-Norwegian West-Indies from the period 1760–1850. Different social strategies these women adopted in finding and defining their identities in a racially prejudiced society and how their social networks and family bonds affected their choices and lives have been studied. By applying a combination of prosopography and microhistory, new insights, and perspectives of free colored women's agency is gained. This paper suggests that free women of color were resourceful and independent and consciously employed complex social practices to climb the social ladder.

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Three Generations of Free Colored Women in St. Croix. 1750–1850

Sundsback

2023

Journal of Family History

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An unavoidably short history of inland aquatic animal diversity research in the US Virgin Islands

Cruz‐Rivera

Rogers

2022

Aquat Ecol

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Danish Colonial Healthcare Policy, St. Croix, Virgin Islands

Reifschneider¹

2019

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Abstract(Post)colonial scholarship in recent decades has undergone methodological and conceptual revisions and scholars have increasingly adopted the premise that social and political transformations are the product of both global and local struggles. The goal of this paper is to position healthcare as an “imperial force field” by focusing on the development of a colonial healthcare system in the nineteenth-century Danish West Indies. I argue that challenging seemingly self-evident concepts such as healthcare forces us to recognise that interventionist healthcare was contested and negotiated at multiple levels. This paper mobilises archival and archaeological research from a plantation hospital at Estate Cane Garden, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, to provide a context for interrogating the practical negotiations of colonial healthcare policy. While colonial administrative documents and physician reports depict a rather narrow range of healthcare practices, archaeological evidence from a plantation hospital suggests that healthcare, within plantation institutions, was more heterogeneous than the documents indicate. The goal of this paper is largely methodological. It mobilises colonial transcripts and material culture in ways that disrupt and reimagine taken-for-granted assumptions to show how those most affected by colonial policies complicate colonial institutions via on-the-ground practices.

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Introduction: The historiography of slavery in the Danish-Norwegian West Indies, c. 1950-2016.

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Three Generations of Free Colored Women in St. Croix. 1750–1850

Three Generations of Free Colored Women in St. Croix. 1750–1850

An unavoidably short history of inland aquatic animal diversity research in the US Virgin Islands

Danish Colonial Healthcare Policy, St. Croix, Virgin Islands

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