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Original Articles

Sexual relationships and working lives of free Afro-Caribbean women

References

Archival references

  • Danish National Archives - DNA (Rigsarkivet)
  • West India and Guinea Company, Government on St. Croix – WIGC/GSC
  • (Vestindisk-Guineiske Kompagni, Guvernementets St. Croix afdeling)
  • Archive no. 678
  • 678:3.81.342 Subject files 7: Accounting 1754-1917: Extracts of the accounts of the Sheriff of Christiansted 1772-1786 (Gruppeordnede sager 7: Regnskabsvæsen: Ekstrakter af Christiansteds byfogedregnskab)
  • 678:3.81.343 Subjekt files 7: Accounting 1754-1917: Extracts of the accounts of the Sheriff of Christiansted, 1797-1798 (Gruppeordnede sager 7: Regnskabsvæsen: Ekstrakter af Christiansteds byfogedregnskab)
  • 678:3.81.564 Subject files 9: Social and cultural relations 1744-1911: Free coloured men, women and children in Christiansted 1816 (Gruppeordnede sager 9: Sociale og kulturelle forhold: Frikulørte mænd, kvinder og børn i Christiansted 1816)
  • Sheriff of Christiansted (The Lower Court Judge in Christiansted) - SC
  • (Christiansted Byfoged)
  • Archive no. 684
  • 684:38.26.27 Registers of Mortgages 1736-1844: Z 1804-1807 (Panteprotokoller)
  • The Evangelical Congregation, St. Croix – EC/SC
  • (Den evangeliske Menighed på Sankt Croix)
  • Archive no. EC-770
  • EC-770: 1/770-4-4b Church register for the Evangelical Church in St. Croix 1740-1860, 1780-94 (Enesteministerialbog for den evangeliske menighed på Skt. Croix)
  • Board of Supervisors for Education and Missions - BSEM
  • (Generalkirkeinspektionskollegiet)
  • Archive no. 236
  • 236: F4-8-20-21 Received cases 1754-1791, 1784-1791 (Indkomne sager)
  • Audited Accounts, West India Accounts – AA/WIA
  • (Reviderede Regnskaber,Vestindiske Regnskaber)
  • Archive no. 571
  • 571:86.17-40 Tax records for St. Croix 1758–1915, 1780-1806 (Matrikler for St. Croix)
  • Oxholm, Peter Lotharius, and 2nd wife Anna (Ann) Oxholm, née O’Neill - OPL
  • (Oxholm, Peter Lotharius og 2. hustru Anna (Ann) Oxholm, født O’Neill)
  • Archive no. 06087
  • 06087: 4: I E 5-9 Cases concerning the Danish West Indies 1755-1817. Letters, personal papers, diary, etc. 1792-1880. List of Negroes in Christiansted and Frederiksted 1797 (Sager vedr. de dansk vestindiske øer. Breve, personlige papirer, dagbog mv. 1792-1880. Fortegnelse over negre i Christiansted og Frederiksted)

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