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CULTURE 17TH JULY 2010 KL. 11.16 Slave descendant: Denmark should review its past in the eyes  EXPLOITATION. The Slave descendant Shelley Moorhead, here in Amalie Garden, feel pride when h e sees Amalie Castle. Many of Copenhagen's palaces were built thanks to a lot of money, Danish companies earned from his ancestors - Photo: Photo: Niels Christensen Shelley Moorhead will shed light on the Danish colony and slave histor y. TEXT FACEBOOKSEND PRINTOF KATHRINE STORGAARD CARLSEN A dark man with dreadlocks presses his lips against a large white conchshell. With the full power of his lungs honk, the 37-year-old [36-year-old] slave descendant Shelley Moorhead, blows a tune, that could be heard several hundred meters outside the Assistens Cemetery, where he faces Peter von Scholten s tomb Saturday morning 3rd July. Within a few minutes as a puzzled and curious bunch of Danes gathered around him. None of them recognizes the tune or understand why the dark man subsequently present flowers and pouring rum beyond the grave. Selects landmark day The 3 rd of July, 162 years ago, is the day that Peter von Scholten repealed the 175-year slave period on the former Danish West Indies, where slaves had been forbidden to assemble and had to communicate with conchshells.

POLITKEN ARTICLE 17 July 2010 Slave Descendant: Denmark Should Review Its Past in the Eyes

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