Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Erik Gøbel -- Introduction / Erik Gøbel -- Volume and Composition of the Slave Trade and the Trade Cargoes / Erik Gøbel -- Transatlantic Slave Trade Shipping / Erik Gøbel -- Slave Trade in the Danish West Indies and in Asia / Erik Gøbel -- Prelude in Denmark Prior to 1792 / Erik Gøbel -- Ernst Schimmelmann / Erik Gøbel -- The Slave Trade Commission and Its Report, 1791 / Erik Gøbel -- The Abolition Edict, 1792 / Erik Gøbel -- Transitional Period, 1792–1802 / Erik Gøbel -- Developments after 1803 / Erik Gøbel -- Conclusion / Erik Gøbel -- The Slave Trade Commission’s Report, 28 December 1791 / Erik Gøbel -- Appendix A to the Report: Specification of Ships Departed from the Gold Coast / Erik Gøbel -- Appendix B to the Report: Slaves Bought at Danish Settlements on the Gold Coast, 1777–89 / Erik Gøbel -- Appendix C to the Report: Danish Slave Trade Cargo, about 1790 / Erik Gøbel -- Appendix D to the Report: Number of Negroes on Saint Croix, 1780–90 / Erik Gøbel -- Appendix E to the Report: Negroes on Saint Croix Plantations Indebted to the King, Listed by Gender / Erik Gøbel -- Appendix F to the Report: Negroes on Saint Thomas and Saint John Plantations Indebted to the King, Listed by Gender / Erik Gøbel -- Appendix G to the Report: Negroes on Plantations on Saint Croix Belonging to Count von Schimmelmann’s Family Trust / Erik Gøbel -- Appendix H to the Report: Negroes on Plantations on Saint Croix Belonging to Count von Schimmelmann’s Family Trust, Listed by Gender / Erik Gøbel -- The Abolition Edict, 16 March 1792: Danish National Archives, Collection of Printed Ordinances / Erik Gøbel -- Bibliography / Erik Gøbel -- Index / Erik Gøbel.

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In The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition , Erik Gøbel offers an account of the well-documented Danish transatlantic slave trade. Denmark was the seventh-largest slave-trading nation with forts and factories on the Gold Coast and a colony in the Virgin Islands. The comprehensive Danish archival material provides the basis for Gøbel’s descriptions of the volume and composition of the slave trade and trade cargoes, as well as the shipping and conditions on board along the Middle Passage. Attention is also paid to the 1791 Danish Slave Trade Commission report and the final decision to abolish the slave trade altogether.