The Brandenburg Triangle

Scheuerer, Gerhard

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The Liberation of the Serfs 2012

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The Brandenburg Triangle

Gerhard Scheuerer

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“…13 Klaus Weber has already illuminated German involvement in Europe's triangular trade, but German involvement in Danish abolitionism and imperial reform is yet to be fully understood. It is worth noting that two Germans were so instrumental in Danish colonial reform.…”

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Why the Danes Got There First – A Trans-Imperial Study of the Abolition of the Danish Slave Trade in 1792

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Slavery & Abolition

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This article explores the causes and timing of the abolition of the Danish slave trade in 1792. While the existing historiography highlights economic and humanitarian considerations behind the decision to decree abolition of the slave trade and situates such concerns within a Danish context, this article looks at ways in which trans-imperial influences on the Danish government and commercial ties between the Danish colonial empire and other slave trading polities were equally important factors in the move towards abolition.On 16 March 1792, Christian VII of Denmark-Norway decreed the abolition of the Danish slave trade. In a brief announcement, the King declared that 'From the beginning of the year 1803 we wish that the slave trading of our subjects cease on the African coast and wherever else it may take place off our West Indian possessions.' 1 With this resolution, Denmark became the first European colonial empire to officially commit to the abolition of its trans-Atlantic and inter-Caribbean slave trades. Revolutionary France abolished slavery on 4 February 1794, but Napoleon notoriously reinstated both slavery and the slave trade eight years later. 2 In Britain, abolitionists had agitated for the abolition of the slave trade since the early 1780s, but Parliament only decreed the abolition of the British slave trade on 25 March 1807, with effect from 1 January 1808. 3 Other European powers followed more hesitantly, beginning with a pledge to cooperate against the slave trade during the Congress of Vienna. 4 The focus of this article is to revisit the question of why Denmark, a relatively obscure colonial empire on the periphery of Europe, became the first European empire to abolish its slave trade. Unlike Britain, Denmark had seen no parliamentary debates on the slave trade (it was an absolute Monarchy), nor had there been a storm of petitions requesting abolition. Unlike France, Denmark had also not had a group of

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