Includes index.

Portals of Early Modern Globalisation and Creolisation in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade / Holger Weiss -- The Entangled Spaces of Oddena, Oguaa and Osu: A Survey of Three Early Modern African Atlantic Towns, circa 1650-1850 / Holger Weiss -- A Fine Flintlock, a Pair of Ditto Pistols and a Hat with a Gold Galloon': Danish Political and Commercial Strategies on the Gold Coast in the Early 18th Century / Fredrik Hyrum Svensli -- Slave Trade, Slave Plantations and Danish Colonialism / Per Hernes -- Pre-Colonial Visions of a Colony: The Construction of the Pligtarbejder in a Proposed Danish West African Colony / Jonas M©ıller Pedersen -- The Question of Rights in a Colour-Conscious Empire: The Danish West Indies and the Global Age of Revolutions (1800-1850) / Christian Damm Pedersen -- The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C.G.A. Oldendorp's Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West Indies / Anders Ahlb̘ack -- Freedom, Autonomy, and Independence: Exceptional African Caribbean Life Experiences in St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies, in the Middle of the 18th Century / Louise Sebro -- Magic, Obeah and Law in the Danish West Indies, 1750s-1840s / Gunvor Simonsen -- Thirty-Two Lashes at Quatre Piquets: Slave Laws and Justice in the Swedish Colony of St. BartheÌ€Ilemy circa 1800 / Fredrik Thomasson.

2