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,
Cohen,David William (Author) and Greene,Jack P. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1972
Published:
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
344 p, Contents: Colonial Spanish America / Frederick P. Bowser -- Surinam and Curaçao / H. Hoetink -- Colonial Brazil / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- The French Antilles / Léo Elisabeth -- Saint Domingue / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall -- Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- Barbados / Jerome S. Handler and Arnold A. Sio -- The slave states of North America / Eugene D. Genovese -- Cuba / Franklin W. Knight -- Nineteenth-century Brazil / Herbert S. Klein
Engerman,Stanley L. (Author) and Genovese,Eugene D. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1975
Published:
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
556 p, Includes Michael J. Craton's "Jamaican slavery," pp. 249-284;and Frederick P. Bowser's "The free persons of color in Mexico City and Lima: manumission and opportunity, 1580-1650," pp. 331-368;
