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The 1812 Slave Revolt in the Danish Virgin Islands
In 1812, enslaved Africans on the Danish colony of St. Jan (now St. John, US Virgin Islands) rose up against their Danish and Dutch planters in one of the earliest large-scale revolts in the Caribbean. This episode explores the revolt's leaders, including the enslaved man Budhoe, the conspiracy that spread across the island, and the brutal Danish military response. We discuss the Crown's last-minute abolition of the slave trade in 1803, the economic pressures from the Napoleonic Wars, and how this uprising foreshadowed larger rebellions to come. The episode also covers the…
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