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Sovereignty, Mastery, and Law in the Danish West Indies, 1672–1733

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2019

Gunvor Simonsen
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Abstract

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, officers of the Danish West India and Guinea Company struggled to balance the sovereignty of the company with the mastery of St. Thomas’ and St. John's slave owners. This struggle was central to the making of the laws that controlled enslaved Africans and their descendants. Slave laws described slave crime and punishment, yet they also contained descriptions of the political entities that had the power to represent and execute the law. Succeeding governors of St. Thomas and St. John set out to align claims about state sovereignty with masters’ prerogatives, and this balancing act shaped the substance of slave law in the Danish West Indies. Indeed, the slave laws pronounced by and the legal thinking engaged in by island governors suggest that sovereignty was never a stable state of affairs in the Danish West Indies. It was always open to renegotiation as governors, with varying degrees of loyalty to the company and at times with questionable capability, strove to determine what sovereignty ought to look like in a time of slavery.

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Danish Caribbeansovereigntyslave lawslave masterycompany-state
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Itinerario , Volume 43 , Special Issue 2: Colonial Entanglements: Crossroads, Contact Zones and Flows in Scandinavian Global History , August 2019 , pp. 283 - 304
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Copyright © 2019 Research Institute for History, Leiden University 

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Gunvor Simonsen is associate professor of history at Copenhagen University. Among other things, she has written about race and identity in West Africa (in today's Ghana) as well as on obeah, gender, and legal practices in the Danish West Indies (today the US Virgin Islands). Her book Slave Stories: Law, Representation, and Gender in the Danish West Indies (2017) reconstructs some of the narratives enslaved men and women crafted in their encounter with Danish judges in the Caribbean.

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Secher, V. A., ed. Kong Christian den Femtis Danske Lov. København: Schultz, 1891.Google Scholar
Sielemann, Rasmus Basse. Natures of Conduct: Governmentality and the Danish West Indies. Ph.D. diss. Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2015.Google Scholar
Simonsen, Gunvor. Slave Stories: Law, Representation, and Gender in the Danish West Indies. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Stern, Philip D. The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundation of the British Empire in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Tamm, Ditlev, ed. Danske og Norske lov i 300 år, festskriftet er udgivet i anledning af 300-året for udstedelsen af Christian V's Danske Lov. København: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, 1983.Google Scholar
Tamm, , Ditlev, , ed. Retshistorie—Danmark—Europa—globale perspektiver. København: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, 2005.Google Scholar
Thomasson, Frederik. “Thirty-Two Lashes at Quatre Piquets: Slave Laws and Justice in the Swedish Colony of St. Barthélemy, ca. 1800.” In Ports of Globalisation, Places of Creolisation: Nordic Possessions in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade, edited by Weiss, Holger, 280–305. Leiden: Brill, 2015.Google Scholar
Watson, Alan. Slave Law in the Americas. London: University of Georgia Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Westergaard, Waldemar. The Danish West Indies under Company Rule (1671–1754): With a Supplementary Chapter, 1755–1917. New York: Macmillan Company, 1917.Google Scholar
Zacek, Natalie. Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.Google Scholar