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Article from Danish newspaper Berlingske 25. March 2017

http://www.b.dk/content/item/1030765

Nu kan du selv sige undskyld for slaveriet

Fra mandag 27. marts bliver det via en underskriftindsamling muligt selv at undskylde for Danmarks brug af slaver på De Vestindiske Øer i 1600-1700 tallet. Men det burde være statens eller dronningens opgave at undskylde, mener eksperter.

www.b.dk

Sent by Daniela Skov in Facebook Messenger to Shelley Moorhead, US Virgin Islands​,​​ Special Advisor to Kenneth E. Mapp, Governor of the US Virgin Islands & founder of ACRRA.:

I promise I am in the process of translating this into English.

Kind Regards, Daniela

When I send the translation to you I personally highlight some passage. It is not done by the author of the article. It is because I sit wondering how this author who even wrote a book, thinks that the ordinary Dane did not benefit much from the slavery in our past. Amalienborg where our Queen lives it is told was financed through slave labour. We ought to teach our children and youth and all of us lacking to realize the bigger picture as we most sadly do, Denmark benefit in our Trade 2017 today also from our monarchy representing all of Denmark abroad.

Now you may yourself give an apology for the slavery

This year it is 100 ago that Denmark sold the West Indies to The United States.

Photo: PR

Af Af Jens Rebensdorff jrf@berlingske.dk

From Monday it will be possible via a petition for signature even to apologize ourselves for Denmark's use of slaves in the Caribbean in 1600-1700 century.

From March 27 (2017) all Danes can do what neither Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (V) or Queen Margrethe intend to do: apologize for our keeping people in slavery in the West Indies.

The Islands (St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix) were Danish colonies from respectively 1672, 1718 and 1733 until they were sold to the United States March 31, 1917, and it was especially the nobility, rich merchants and the monarchy, that based large parts of their economy on the buying and selling of people who laboured in the sugar cane plantations in the West Indies.

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The Moravians in Christansfeld, also called Herrnhuters by about one million members worldwide, at their website Online petition → www.WeChange.dk

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encouraging the Danish people to apologize collectively. In the so-called declaration to sign, it says among other things:

"The time has come for reconciliation of heart and mind. As citizens of Denmark we hereby: That we with grief consider our deeply regrettable past when ancestors of the people of the US Virgin Islands were kept in slavery and against their will were forced to work for slave owners, many of whom came from Denmark. For this we apologize, though delayed, in a spirit of respect and love. "

PhD and pastor of the Moravians Jørgen Bøytler, emphasizes that the petition should not be seen as criticism that the official Denmark will not apologize for slavery:

"But someone has to do it for an excuse would be indication that there are some Danes who understands that what happened then was not fair. And for part of the population in the Caribbean, it is important to have such an apology. "

Jonas Christoffersen.

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Brethren missionary (Herrnhuter) was Working among the slaves from 1732 and meanwhile owned plantations even utilizing slaves. "Salt in the wound " (pastor) Jørgen Bøytler calls this Herrnhuters’ problematic chapter in the church's history.

"We hope that many Danes agree with us that it was unacceptable and inhumane that which was happening at the time," says Jørgen Bøytler.

Author Mich Vraa, who in 2016 published the book "The hope" about Danish slavery in the Caribbean, believes that if the official Denmark will not apologize for slavery, the people ought to do it themselves

The port of Frederiksted on St. Croix. File photo: Henning Bagger

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"But the people who benefited from slavery, were not Mr. and Mrs. Pedersen. It was the nobility and the wealthy merchants and the Royal Family. The ball rests with the Royal Family. For example Amalienborg is built slave money, "says Mich Vraa.

"If some people really believe that we need to apologize, and they cannot get the official Denmark to do it, so can the Danish population do it. But that the ordinary Danes must apologize for something they hardly did not benefit from is - strange"

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THOUSANDS WERE SLAVES AFTER BAN

On March 16, 1792, Christian 7 banned the trade of slaves in Africa. The ban came however into force ten years later, and the slavery in Denmark was first banned in 1848. A census from October 1, 1835 reveals that the population of Saints. Croix, Saint. Thomas and St. January still had slaves 43 years after 1792. A statistic from 1842 shows how the population of the West Indies looked in 1835. A total of 27,134 people were slaves, while 16,044 were free. Source: Statistics Denmark

Associate Professor Lisa Storm Villadsen’s comment to Moravian apology text: "The text is conspicuously orientated around feelings: 'hearts and minds',' with grief ',' spirit of respect and love." Many of these feelings are of course relevant, but these formulations also make invisible the physical and material circumstances of slavery. The violence, exploitation, inhumanity are passed over in a very 'socially acceptable' or 'euphemistic' description. Finally, it is unclear who the receiver is.

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Artikel fra Berlingske 25. marts 2017

http://www.b.dk/content/item/1030765

Nu kan du selv sige undskyld for slaveriet

Det er i år 100 år siden, at Danmark solgte De Vestindiske Øer til USA.

Foto: PR

Af Af Jens Rebensdorff jrf@berlingske.dk

Fra mandag bliver det via en underskriftsindsamling muligt selv at undskylde for Danmarks brug af slaver på De Vestindiske Øer i 1600-1700 tallet.

Fra 27. marts kan alle danskere gøre det, hverken Statsminister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (V) eller Dronning Margrethe har tænkt sig at gøre: sige undskyld for slaveriet på De Vestindiske Øer.

Øerne (St. Thomas, St. Jan og St. Croix) var danske kolonier fra henholdsvis 1672, 1718 og 1733, indtil de blev solgt til USA 31. marts 1917, og det var især adelen, rige købmænd og kongehuset, der baserede store dele af deres økonomi på køb og salg af mennesker som arbejdskraft i sukkerrørsplantagerne i Vestindien.

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Det er Brødremenigheden i Christiansfeld, også kaldet Herrnhuterne med ca. en million medlemmer på verdensplan, der på hjemmesiden http://www.wechange.dk opfordrer det danske folk til kollektivt at sige undskyld. I den såkaldte deklaration, man kan skrive under på, lyder det blandt andet:

»Tiden er kommet for forsoning i hjerte og sind. Som borgere i Danmark erklærer vi hermed: At vi med sorg betragter den dybt beklagelige fortid, hvor forfædre af befolkningen på US Virgin Islands blev holdt i slaveri og mod deres vilje blev tvunget til at arbejde for slaveejere, hvoraf mange kom fra Danmark. For dette undskylder vi, skønt forsinket, i en ånd af respekt og kærlighed.«

Ph.d og præst i Brødremenigheden, Jørgen Bøytler, understreger, at underskriftindsamlingen ikke skal ses som kritik af, at det officielle Danmark ikke vil give en undskyldning for slaveriet:

»Men nogen skal gøre det, for en undskyldning vil være udtryk for, at der er nogle danskere, der har forståelse for, at det, der skete dengang, ikke var rimeligt. Og for en del af befolkningen i Vestindien er det vigtigt at få en sådan undskyldning.«

Jonas Christoffersen.

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Slaveri: Kræver menneskeretten, at vi undskylder?

Brødremenigheden missionerede blandt slaverne fra 1732 og ejede samtidig plantager og udnyttede selv slaver. »Salt i såret« kalder Jørgen Bøytler dette for Herrnhuterne problematiske kapitel i menighedens historie.

»Vi håber, at mange danskere er enige med os i, at det var utilstedeligt og umenneskeligt det, der foregik dengang,« siger Jørgen Bøytler.

Forfatter Mich Vraa, der i 2016 udgav bogen »Håbet« om danskernes slaveri på De Vestindiske Øer, mener, at hvis det officielle Danmark ikke vil give en undskyldning for slaveriet, må befolkningen selv gøre det.

Havnen i Frederiksted på St. Croix. Arkivfoto: Henning Bagger

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Statsministeren undgik at sige undskyld for vores skamfulde fortid

»Men de mennesker, der drog nytte af slaveriet, var jo ikke hr. og fru Pedersen. Det var adelen og de rige købmænd og Kongehuset. Bolden ligger hos Kongehuset. For eksempel Amalienborg er bygget for slavepenge,« siger Mich Vraa.

»Hvis nogle mennesker virkelig mener, at vi skal sige undskyld, og de ikke kan få det officielle Danmark til at gøre det, så kan Danmarks befolkning jo gøre det. Men det med at de jævne danskere skal sige undskyld for noget, de næsten ikke har haft nogen gavn af, det er – underligt.«

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TUSINDER VAR SLAVER EFTER FORBUD

Den 16. marts 1792 forbød Christian den 7. handel med slaver i Afrika. Forbuddet trådte dog først i kraft ti år senere, og selve slaveri i Danmark blev først forbudt i 1848. En folketælling fra 1. oktober 1835 afslører, at befolkningen på Sankt. Croix, Sankt. Thomas og Sankt. Jan fortsat havde slaver 43 år efter 1792. En statistik fra 1842 viser, hvordan befolkningen på De Vestindiske Øer så ud i 1835. I alt 27.134 personer var slaver, mens

16.044 var frie. Kilde: Danmarks Statistik

Lektor Lisa Storm Villadsens kommentar til Brødremenighedens undskyldningstekst: »Teksten er påfaldende orienteret omkring følelser: »hjerte og sind«, »med sorg«, »af respekt og kærlighed«. Mange af disse følelser er selvfølgelig relevante, men det er også formuleringer, der usynliggør de fysiske og materielle omstændigheder ved slaveriet. Volden, udnyttelsen, umenneskeligheden bliver forbigået i en meget »stueren« eller »eufemistisk« beskrivelse. Endelig er det uklart, hvem modtageren er.

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