This article also included in the Papers presented at the Eleventh Conference of Caribbean Historians, held in Curaçao 5-10 April, 1979 (s.l.: Association of Caribbean Historians; 5 vols.)
"The story of Peter Von Scholten, Governor of the Danish West Indies who freed the slaves ca. 1848, and Anna Heegaard; also, daughter of the Dane Jacob Heegaard, is legend in the folklore and written history of the Danish West Indies. Some Danish historians have called the Von Scholten-Heegaard twenty-five year relationship the greatest love story of the Danish West Indies." (Louise Daniel Hutchinson, Ancestry.com message board,
Examines how the Mocko Jumbie stilt-dancing masquerade evolved in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Contends that an upper Guinea coast provenance appears more likely than origins in southeastern Nigeria
The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) is a complex society with multiple diverse ethnic groups: Black Virgin Islanders, Eastern Caribbean islanders, Puerto Ricans, Spanish Dominicans, French Islanders, Americans (Continentals), Arabs and Asians. These ethnic differences as well as United States cultural imperialism have stymied any uniform Virgin Islands identity. Nonetheless, social identity in the USVI can be conceptualized into the bi-level structural analysis of national and trans-Caribbean.
