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🇩🇰🇮🇳 Koloniale besiddelser tilhørende Dansk Ostindiske Kompagni i Indien i 225 år (1620-1845).

The emancipation of Denmark’s Caribbean slaves was finally proclaimed in 1848

🇩🇰🇮🇳 A collection of texts in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, copied in 1730 for Protestant missionaries in the Danish East India colony of Tranquebar. KB-Copenhagen, ms Cod. Mixt. 3.

Danish colony in Africa

How autonomous was Iceland prior to it becoming an independent republic on 17th June 1944?

Old map of Denmark 1595

why didnt the kingdom of Denmark, get an african territory in 1884?

Christian Søren Marcus Olrik, Inspector of North Greenland - 1854

French 'Map of Danish States' that shows Denmark's overseas colonies - 1802

Danish West Indian newspaper featuring advertisements for slave auctions and a notice issued by a woman promising a reward for the return of a runaway slave - 1771

Constable in front of Fort Christiansborg (Osu Castle) on the Danish Gold Coast - 1828

Danish slave ship Fredensborg heading for St. Croix in the Danish West Indies with a cargo of slaves - 1788

Icelanders celebrate becoming a republic and the end of their country's union with Denmark - 17 June 1944

A large crowd also assembled at Fort Christiansværn in Frederiksted in the Danish West Indies to see the lowering of the Dannebrog for the last time as the territory is transferred to the United States - 1917

'Hamilton Jackson's homecoming turns black despair into bright hopes', Danish satirical drawing of the West Indian labour rights advocate who worked to improve conditions for black people on the islands - 1915

Headquarters of the Danish-West Indian National Bank in Charlotte Amalie, Danish West Indies - c. 1904-1917

Banknote issued by the Danish-West Indian National Bank - 1905

Governor of the Danish West Indies Henri Konow reads a letter by King Christian X addressed to the people who would no longer be his subjects after the territory was sold to the United States - 1917

How big was the role of Norwegians in the colonization and maintaining of the Danish West Indies?

Poem by former inhabitant of the Danish West Indies, Ralph Faris, expressing mixed feelings about the transfer of the territory to the United States - 1917

$25 million cheque given to Denmark by the United States in exchange for the Danish West Indies (now the US Virgin Islands) - 1917

Caricature of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the US showing President Wilson leaving with three small islands in the form of three black boys, while a sack of money is carried into Denmark House as Mother Denmark weeps - 1916

'Getting Acquainted With Our New West Indian Fellow Citizens', illustrations depicting life in the newly acquired US Virgin Islands (formerly the Danish West Indies) - 1917