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Emancipation, USVI
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Rioting slaves marched on Frederiksted, St. Croix, in 1848, forcing Danish Governor Peter Von Scholten to declare from the ramparts of Fort Frederik that “All unfree in the Danish West Indies are from today emancipated.” His decree also included St. Thomas and St. John.
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