File:EmancipationsplakatDWI1848.jpg

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English: Governor-General Peter von Scholten had this bilingual poster printed immediately on the night of July 3-4, 1848, publicizing his decision to abolish slavery effective immediately. The poster was put up everywhere in the Danish West Indies in the days to come. (The Danish National Archives).
Date
Source https://www.virgin-islands-history.org/en/timeline/the-slave-rebellion-on-st-croix-and-emancipation/
Author Danish National Archives
Camera location17° 42′ 54.85″ N, 64° 53′ 00.82″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

English text reads: 1. All Unfree in the danish westindia Islands are from to-day emancipated. 2. The Estate Negroes retain for three months from date the use of the houses and provisiongrounds of which they have hither-to been possessed. 3. Labour is in future to be paid for by agreement, but allowance is to cease. 4. The maintenance of old and infirm, who are not able to work is until farther determination to be furnished by the late owners.

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Emancipation proclamation, Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands), 1848

inception

9 July 2008

coordinates of the point of view

17°42'54.853"N, 64°53'0.816"W

exposure time

0.008 second

focal length

7.7 millimetre

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image/jpeg

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