Map

Running Against the Odds, Sarah of St. Croix

Activity Type: , ,
During the time of slavery in the Danish West Indies enslaved Africans regularly attempted to escape. At times, they succeeded. Danish West Indian authorities issued laws, such as the slave code of 1733, to sanction and punish such behavior. Slave owners used island newspapers to notify the community that…
View Activity

Map of part of Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas

Activity Type:
Bluebeard’s Castle is the name given to a historic Danish period watchtower that was built around 1689, on St. Thomas. It is located on a small hill, overlooking Charlotte Amalie harbor. Originally the watchtower was part of a fortification system used to watch over and protect the harbor. The…
View Activity

Peter L. Oxholm Map of St. Croix 1794

Activity Type:
Maps provide a wealth of visual information about a particular place in both space and time. The Virgin Islands archival record is exceptionally rich in maps depicting the various islands from the seventeenth century to the present. This map of St. Croix, originally drawn in 1794 by Peter Lotharius…
View Activity

Analyzing a Harbor Master’s Map of Charlotte Amalie St. Thomas from 1822

Activity Type:
This map was drawn by Levin Jørgen Rohde. He was born in 1786 and died in 1857. He was a commodore in the Royal Danish Navy, and harbor master of the port of St. Thomas, West Indies from 1819 to 1854. The map is called “Kort over havnen i…
View Activity