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Articles, Book and Dissemination: The project will generate a number of co-authored publications of article length during or shortly after the completion of the project as well as a joint study of book length in 2009 (The English book sellers, James Currey Publishers, have already indicated a strong interest in publishing the work. Gyldendals Forlag will soon be contacted as well). Since this is a research as well as a dissemination project the afore-mentioned publications as well as the book will function as important resources and guides that can advise Nationalmuseet, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the educational sector in how to represent the Danish colonial past in the tropics where slavery was an integral part (see also our popular article regarding the Danish ship surgeons in the slave trade published by Kristeligt Dagblad, 9.3.2005). In this connection the project intends to contribute to the development of appropriate curricula, when the topic of Danish colonial history and slavery is being taught (refer e.g., to Leif Calundann Larsens [2003], Danskernes slaver, written for use in Danish high schools, gymnansier og HF)

 Capacity Building: Beyond strengthening research through the collaboration between the Department of History at the University of Copenhagen and WISE in Hull (as outlined above), this project also seeks to ensure the significance of the research results by working with inter alia the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Mr. Shelley Moorhead, the leader of the Reparations Committee in the Virgin Islands, towards supporting the local research capacity in the Virgin Islands with a scholarship so that a Virgin Islands Ph.D. student (specializing in human rights and slavery) can undertake his/her studies – in agreement with the topics of the research proposal - for a semester in Copenhagen at the Danish Center for International Studies and Human Rights.

 Research in this Area: We hope with this project to make a significant contribution to Danish and international scholarship and through the newly-established cooperation between WISE in Hull and History in Copenhagen to further stimulate research, possibly through an exchange of students and scholars, in this important area. Moreover, we consider this project as part of the wider effort by Nationalmuseet to explore the Danish colonial history in the tropics (consult also the project by Bente Wolff and Inge Schjellerup as well as the ‘Tranquebar Initiative’ presided over by Esther Fihl – for these projects see  www.galathea3.dk under ‘Kultur og Historie’ ).

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