The Danish Edict of 16th March 1792 to Abolish the Slave Trade1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20042741 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik Gøbel (0000-0002-0342-6969, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Atlantic Slave Trade (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003362647-1 |
| OpenAlex | W2801566487 |
| ISBN | 9781003362647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Around the middle of the seventeenth century, Denmark established itself on the Guinea Coast at Fort Christiansborg in Accra, and later built other smaller forts and factories along the Coast. Denmark won international recognition in 1792 by becoming the first slave trading state in Europe that determined to abolish this trade in human cargoes. This chapter deals with the famous edict of 16th March 1792 abolishing the Danish slave trade from the first day of 1803, as well as with the commission report and some of the considerations that lay behind the edict. Most authorities agree that Ernst Schimmelmann was the prime mover behind the decision in 1792 to gradually abolish the Danish slave trade. The Commission based its recommendation to prohibit the transport of slaves between Danish Guinea and the Danish West Indies on simple and obvious humane demands
Ancient history · Commission · Danish · Economic history · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · West indies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |