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,
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280 p., Compares the experiences of persons of African origin and descent in the towns of Baltimore and Sabara, Black Townsmen reconsiders their relationship to eighteenth-century urban environments in the Americas. Following Africans and their descendants through their struggle with slavery, manumission, and life in freedom, Dantas explains how these men and women's efforts and choices helped to define the trajectory of these two towns.
iscusses the interpretations of both contemporaries and historians on the amendment presented by Jean Francois Reubell on 15 May 1791 which gave civil and political rights to free men of color living on Santo Domingo
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463 p., Contents: A polícia e os candomblés no tempo de Domingos -- De africano em Onim a escravo na Bahia -- O adivinho Domingos Sodré -- Feitiçaria e escravidão -- Feitiçaria e alforria -- Uns amigos de Domingos -- Domingos Sodré, africano ladino e homem de bens.
