Dissemination

Publications

Heather Freund, 2024. "“A Place of Refuge to Republicans and Royalists”: The French Revolution in British Dominica." Journal of British Studieshttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/place-of-refuge-to-republicans-and-royalists-the-french-revolution-in-british-dominica/25F4CEF27A430F4653C59D16174A9DE7 

Gunvor Simonsen, 2024. “Race, Slavery, and the Market: African Lives in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen”, in Rebekka von Mallinckrodt (ed), The European Experience in Slavery, 1650–1850. Berlin: DeGruyter, p. 101-128. https://inthesamesea.ku.dk/people/?pure=en%2Fpublications%2Frace-slavery-and-the-market-african-lives-in-eighteenthcentury-copenhagen(b2a3562f-cf49-4e17-8a90-aac8a04158db).html

Heather Freund, 2024. "Review of Alison Brown and Jonathan Harlow (eds.), Atlantic Venture Accounts of Eighteenth-Century Bristol. Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 2021." International Journal of Maritime Historyhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08438714241272745 

Gunvor Simonsen, 2024. "The Danish Atlantic World." In Oxford Bibliographies: Atlantic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0409.xml 

Justin Roberts, Philip D. Morgan, and Rasmus Christensen, 2024. “The Paradox of Abolition: Sugar Production and Slave Demography in Danish St. Croix, 1792-1804,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 54(4), 453-476. https://direct.mit.edu/jinh/article-abstract/54/4/453/122388/The-Paradox-of-Abolition-Sugar-Production-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Heather Freund, 2024. Review of Simon P. Newman. Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London. London: University of London Press, 2022. In Journal of British Studies 63(2). https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.20

Rasmus Christensen, 2023. Review of Philip D. Morgan, J.R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz. Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. In Journal of Early American History 13(2-3), 279-281. https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-13020015

Gunvor Simonsen, 2023. "History and Public Debates about Racial Slavery in Denmark", in: Stephan Conermann , Claudia Rauhut , Ulrike Schmieder, and Michael Zeuske (eds.), Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe. Berlin: DeGruyter, p. 279-302. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111331492/html#contents

Gunvor Simonsen and Rasmus Christensen, 2023. "Together in a Small Boat: Slavery's Fugitives in the Lesser Antilles", William and Mary Quarterly 80(4), 611-646. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51332

Rasmus Christensen, 2023. "Beretninger om De Danske Westindiske Sukker-Eylande", Danske Magazin 55, 123-168. https://www.academia.edu/113320339/Christensen_Beretninger_om_De_Danske_Westindiske_Sukker_Eylande 

Felicia Fricke, 2023. "“It Is Only Bad Priests and Outlaws Who Thrive NowAdays”: The Catholic Church, the Colonial Authorities, and Elite Rumor Networks in the 1820s Lesser Antilles", New West Indian Guidehttps://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/aop/article-10.1163-22134360-bja10027/article-10.1163-22134360-bja10027.xml 

Felicia Fricke, 2023. "Methode: archeologie", in: Rose Mary Allen, Esther Captain, Matthias van Rossum, and Urwin Vyent (eds.), Staat en slavernij: Het Nederlandse koloniale slavernijverleden en zijn doorwerkingen. Amsterdam: Athenaeum, p. 122-123. https://www.athenaeum.nl/boek?authortitle=rose-mary-allen-esther-captain-matthias-van-rossum-urwin-vyent/staat-en-slavernij--9789025316617

Kristoffer Friis Bøegh, Peter Bakker, Cefas van Rossem, and Rasmus Christensen, 2022. "Seven newly discovered 18th and 19th century Virgin Islands Dutch Creole texts", in Nicholas Faraclas, Ronald Severing, Elisabeth Echteld, and Wim Rutgers (eds.), Caribbean Convivialities and Caribbean Sciences: Inclusive approaches to the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Dutch Caribbean and Beyond. Willemstad: University of Curaçao, p. 93–116. The PDF is available here

Felicia Fricke and Rachel Hoerman, 2022. "Archaeology and social justice in island worlds", World Archaeology 54(3), 484-489. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/00438243.2023.2179538?needAccess=true&role=button

Gunvor Simonsen, L. Almagor, and H. Ikonomou (eds.), 2022. Global Biographies: Lived History as Method. Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526161161/

Rasmus Christensen, 2021. “Kort over Charlotte Amalie havn og by, St. Thomas, o. 1684-1688”, Fund & Forskning 60, 303-310. https://doi.org/10.7146/fof.v60i.130500

Rasmus Christensen, 2021. "Against the Law of God, of Nature and the Secular World: Conceptions of Sovereignty in Early Colonial St. Thomas, 1672-1680", Scandinavian Journal of History 46(4), 476-492. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03468755.2021.1896575?journalCode=shis20

Gunvor Simonsen, 2021. "Digital Resources: Study of Danish Activities in the Caribbean", in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 31p. https://oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-763;jsessionid=9FDF96A828D516B2571ABA41C7F86681

Public Outreach

Felicia Fricke, The Bigards of St. Barths: A Maritime Family. Harbour Conference Room, Gustavia, St. Barths, August 21, 2024.

Felicia Fricke, The Bigards of St. Barths: A Maritime Family. Caribbean Genealogy Library, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, online, July 6, 2024.

Felicia Fricke, The Case of Antony O'Hannan: Rumour, Religion, and Resistance on Grenada, 1829-1830. Grenada National Museum, Grenada, March 8, 2023.

Felicia Fricke, Grenada Osteology Day: An Introduction to Osteology. Grenada Public Archaeology Network, Grenada, March 4, 2023.

Gunvor Simonsen, A New Fugitive Order in the Lesser Antilles in the 1820s, Caribbean Genealogy Library, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, online, February 4, 2023.

Felicia Fricke and Craig Cochrane, The Case of Antony O'Hannan: Rumour, Religion, and Resistance on Grenada, 1829-1830. Grenada Genealogical and Historical Society, Grenada, online, December 4, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/592365082/videos/1803191363383463/

Felicia Fricke and Johnny Angelica, BNK ku presentation di buki di eskritor Fricke. Biblioteka Nashonal Kòrsou, Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean, online, August 17, 2022. https://fb.watch/fcaoTUWy2o/

Gunvor Simonsen, Small Craft Infrastructure and Collective Fugitivity in the Lesser Antilles, c. 1750s – 1850s, Caribbean Genealogy Library, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, June 18, 2022.

Gunvor Simonsen, Små både i Caribien: Maritim infrastruktur og nye flugthistorier [Small craft in the Caribbean: Maritime infrastructure and new fugitive histories], M/S Museet for Søfart [Danish Maritime Museum], November 17, 2021.

Gunvor Simonsen, DR P1, Kampen om historien: Kolonialismens lange skygger [Danish National Broadcasting Corporation, The struggle for history: The Long shadow of colonialism], November 2, 2021. https://www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/kampen-om-historien-3/kampen-om-historien-13

Gunvor Simonsen, "Øerne ved siden af: slaveri og frihed i Caribien", Videnskabernes Selskab, 19 April 2021. (Øerne ved siden af: slaveri og frihed i Caribien)

Conference Papers and Invited Lectures

Felicia Fricke, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Maaike de Waal, Marianny Aguasvivas, Lauriane Ammerlaan, Oriana Chiappa, Andreana Cunningham, Kevin Farmer, marjolijn kok, Zoë van Litsenburg, Kathrin Nägele, Jaime Pagán-Jiménez, Eleni Seferidou, and Amy Victorina, The Coalition for Caribbean Archaeological Heritage (CoCAH): An Informal Network for Ethically Engaged Researchers in Caribbean Archaeology. International Association for Caribbean Archaeology Congress, Nevis, August 15-17, 2024.

Heather Freund, Plotting Marronage in Nineteenth Century Grenada. Britain and the World Conference, Winchester (UK), June 20-22, 2024.

Rasmus Christensen, Freedom at Sea? Navigating Freedom and Danger in the Caribbean Sea, late 1700s to early 1800s. Association of Latin American and Caribbean Historians (ADHILAC) Conference, Willemstad, Curaçao (Online), June 6, 2024.

Heather Freund, An Island Divided: Maroons, the Kalinago, and the British in St. Vincent. Association of Caribbean Historians Conference, Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia, May 26-31, 2024.

Felicia Fricke, A Maritime Family Network at St. Barths, 1802-1829. Association of Caribbean Historians Conference, Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia, May 26-31, 2024.

Gunvor Simonsen, A Business of Freedom? Marronage and Maritime Transport in the Nineteenth-Century Lesser Antilles. Association of Caribbean Historians Conference, Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia, May 26-31, 2024.

Gabriëlle La Croix, “I Bequeath to Her”: Women’s Ownership Practices through Wills and Codicils on St. Croix (1793-1811), 9th Annual Postgraduate Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies 2024, University of Warwick, April 18-19, 2024.

Gabriëlle La Croix, Family between Empires: The Heyligers on the Leeward Islands during the long eighteenth century, Tidigmoderna seminariet/LAUGH, Lund University, January 18, 2024.

Felicia Fricke, He Heard a Rumour: Catholics, the Colonial Authorities, and a Rebel Priest on Grenada in the Late 1820s. Unvisersität Bremen, Forschungskolloquium zur Neueren Geschichte: Historische Dimensionen von Ungleichheit, Online, January 10, 2024.

Heather Freund, The Proclamation of 1763 in the Caribbean, Empire and its Discontent, 1763-1773, Boston, Massachusetts, December 1-2, 2023.

Felicia Fricke, Archaeology, Ethics, and Society: Exploring Slavery in the Dutch Colonial Context, Reuvenslezing (Keynote Speech), Reuvensdagen, Hoorn, The Netherlands, November 16, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VS7pnoJ2Zc 

Heather Freund, Plotting Marronage in Early Nineteenth Century Grenada, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture Colloquium Series, November 14, 2023.

Gunvor Simonsen, Fugitive Friction in the Lesser Antilles: The Consolidated Slave Trade Act of 1824, Illicit Trade and the Global Caribben in the 19th-Century Age of Revolutions, University of Cambridge, September 29, 2023.

Gunvor Simonsen, Det Britiske Imperium og Marronage på De Små Antiller i 1800-tallet, Dansk Historikermøde, Aarhus Universitet, August 18, 2023.

Gabriëlle La Croix, Heyligers in Power: The influence of Johannes Heyliger Pieterszoon, and his family network on the Leeward Islands, Inter-Island Connections in the Lesser Antilles: Family, Friends, and Institutions Across the Sea, University of the Virgin Islands, February 24, 2023.

Heather Freund, ‘A Swarm of People of the most desperate character”: Controlling Migration during the French and Haitian Revolutions, Immigration Laws and Movement in the Lesser Antilles during the Age of Revolutions, American Society for Legal History, University of Chicago, November 12, 2022.

Gunvor Simonsen, Curbing Maritime Marronage in the Lesser Antilles in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, Immigration Laws and Movement in the Lesser Antilles during the Age of Revolutions, American Society for Legal History, University of Chicago, November 12, 2022.

Heather Freund, Runaways Slaves Apprehended by Loyal Black Rangers in Grenada in the 19th Century, Privacy and Colonialism Symposium, University of Copenhagen, October 7, 2022.

Gunvor Simonsen, keynote lecture, Canoes, Cobles, and Bum Boats: Maritime Marronage in the Lesser Antilles, 3rd Nordic 18th-Century Conference, University of Copenhagen, August 26, 2022.

Felicia Fricke, IACA-AIAC Codes of Ethics and Best Practice by Marianny Aguasvivas, Andreana Cunningham, Felicia Fricke, Christina Giovas, Jonathan Hanna, Gérard Richard, Tibisay Sankatsing Nava, John Shorter, and Amy Victorina, International Association for Caribbean Archaeology (IACA-AIAC) Business Meeting, Cuba, July 29, 2022.

Rasmus Christensen & Gunvor Simonsen, Small Boat Infrastructure and Fugitive Collectives in the Lesser Antilles, Small Islands in Close Proximity: Re-Centering the Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Studies Association, online, June 2, 2022.

Gunvor Simonsen, Fugitive Collectives and Small Craft in the Lesser Antilles, c. 1700 – 1850s, The Black Atlantic at Thirty, University of Copenhagen, May 6, 2022.

Heather Freund, Revolutionary émigrés in the Windward Islands 1789-1796, “PANEL: Small Islands in Proximity: Re-Centering the Lesser Antilles”, Cécile Vidal (Panel Chair), Early American Slaveries Conference, Wilberforce Institute for Slavery and Emancipation, Hull (UK), April 20-21, 2022.

Felicia Fricke, Interisland exchange and resistance against uncertainty amongst enslaved populations in the Dutch Caribbean, “PANEL: Small Islands in Proximity: Re-Centering the Lesser Antilles”, Cécile Vidal (Panel Chair), Early American Slaveries Conference, Wilberforce Institute for Slavery and Emancipation, Hull (UK), April 20-21, 2022.

Rasmus Christensen and Gunvor Simonsen, Small boat infrastructure and fugitive collectives in the Lesser Antilles, “PANEL: Small Islands in Proximity: Re-Centering the Lesser Antilles”, Cécile Vidal (Panel Chair), Early American Slaveries Conference, Wilberforce Institute for Slavery and Emancipation, Hull (UK), April 20-21, 2022.

Kathrine Faust Larsen and Marie Keulen, Planning collective maritime marronage in the Dutch and Danish Lesser Antilles, “PANEL: Small Islands in Proximity: Re-Centering the Lesser Antilles”, Cécile Vidal (Panel Chair), Early American Slaveries Conference, Wilberforce Institute for Slavery and Emancipation, Hull (UK), April 20-21, 2022.

Gunvor Simonsen, Introducing In the Same Sea, Universität Trier, Research Seminar in Early Modern History, November 25, 2021.

Gunvor Simonsen, In the Same Sea: The Lesser Antilles as a Common World of Slavery and Freedom, NORDGLOB – Global history in the Nordic Countries, September 21, 2021.