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Scandinavian Economic History Review 31.1 (1983): 21-49. online; Green-Pedersen, Sv E. "The scope and structure of the Danish Negro slave trade." Scandinavian Economic History Review 19.2 (1971): 149-197. online; Green‐Pedersen, Svend E. "Colonial trade under the Danish Flag: A case study of the Danish slave trade to Cuba 1790–1807."
The Danish Virgin Islands were also used as a base for pirates. The British and Dutch settlers became the largest non-slave groups on the islands. Their languages predominated, so much so that the Danish government, in 1839, declared that slave children must attend school in the English language. The colony reached its largest population in the ...
Flag-map of The Danish Colonial Empire at it's peak. All lands ruled by Denmark-Norway (Including factories and Trading posts) The following were trading posts and settlements owned by the Danish colonial empire and respective Chartered companies:
Danish overseas colonies (7 C, 6 P) Dutch colonial empire (12 C, 7 P) F. French colonial empire (18 C, 49 P) G. Territories of the Republic of Genoa (2 C, 30 P)
Danish colonizers in the West Indies aimed to exploit the profitable triangular trade, involving the export of firearms and other manufactured goods to Africa in exchange for slaves, who were then transported to the Caribbean to work the sugar plantations. Caribbean colonies, in turn, exported sugar, rum and molasses to Denmark.
The area under Danish influence was over 10,000 square kilometres. [1] The five Danish Gold Coast Territorial Settlements and forts of the Kingdom of Denmark were sold to the United Kingdom in 1850. Denmark had wanted to sell these colonies for some time as the expenses required to run the colonies had increased following the abolition of slavery.
This is a list of territories and polities that have been considered colonies. Colonies of European countries ... with Overseas Countries and Territories and ...
Disestablishments in the Danish colonial empire (3 C) E. ... Pages in category "Danish overseas colonies" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.