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When was slavery abolished in the Danish West Indies?

In the exam (Danish)

Hvornår blev slaveriet afskaffet i Dansk Vestindien?

  1. aIn 1660I 1660
  2. bIn 1848I 1848Correct answer
  3. cIn 1945I 1945

Why?

For many years Denmark had enslaved people on the plantations in the West Indies. After a revolt by the enslaved people on St Croix, they were declared free in 1848.

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Questions from past citizenship tests (danskogproever.dk), reproduced verbatim in Danish with the official answers by permission of the Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI), and our own practice questions on the facts of the study material “Læremateriale til Indfødsretsprøven” and on Danish values. The English translation and the explanations are ours, made with AI help; in the test the questions are asked in Danish. Current-affairs questions and questions whose official answer no longer holds have been left out. We are not affiliated with SIRI.

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