Anna Heegaard / Enigma

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Hall,Neville A. T. (Author) and Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies (Compiler)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    July-September, 1976
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    22(2-3) : 62-73
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Blacks, Virgin Islands of the United States, Civil rights, Freedmen, Denmark, Petitions, and Heegaard, Anna
    Notes:
    "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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