FROM SERFDOM TO FIREBURN AND STRIKE. A History of Black Labor in the Danish West Indies 1848-1916

Author: Jensen, Peter Hoxcer
Country: St. Croix
Language: English
Year Published: 1998
No. of pages: 258
Illustrations: 36 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound w/ jacket
Size: 9”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 916611191
Biblio/Bio: Index. Bibl.
Code: 5528

Price: $65.00

This book appears at a time when there is tremendous local, regional and international interest in the 19th century emancipation in the West Indies. That event occured in the U.S. Virgin Islands - the erstwhile Danish West Indies - on July 3, 1848. Jensen’s fascinating new book takes up where the story of slavery leaves off and where the hard road to freedom begins. Employing previously unused material from Danish archival and administrative sources, Jensen traces the ex-slaves’ journey from servitude, through new-serfdom and revolt on the sufar- and cotton-producing estates where they had previously been slaves, to their emergence as an autonomous labor movement in the early 20th century.