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The Danish Slave Trade: A Small Empire's Big Role
When we think of the Atlantic slave trade, we think of Britain, France, Portugal, Spain. But what about Denmark? For over a century, the Danish West India Company ran a brutal triangular trade from Copenhagen to the Gold Coast to the Caribbean sugar islands of St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix. This episode explores Denmark's surprisingly significant role in the slave trade—how a small Scandinavian kingdom became a major slave-trading power, building forts like Christiansborg on the Gold Coast, transporting tens of thousands of enslaved Africans across the Middle Passage, and running a…
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