Hans Jónatan, 1784-1827
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- Jónatan, Hans, 1784-1827
- Jonathan, Hans, 1784-1827
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Birth Date
- 1784
Death Date
- 1827
Birth Place
- Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands)
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Freedmen
(lcsh) Slaves
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Sources
- found: Hans Jónatan, 2014:t.p. (Hans Jónatan) p. 10 (b. 1784) p. 179 (d. 1827)
- found: Middle Savagery Website, Aug. 5, 2015(Hans Jonatan was born into slavery in 1784 on a sugar plantation in St. Croix, a Danish colony in the Caribbean; transferred to Copenhagen, sentenced to go back to St. Croix after the abolition of slavery in Denmark, then escaped to Iceland, where he raised a family and became one of the first people of colour to live in Iceland; the life and eventual ancestors of Hans Jonatan highlights the complicated genetic legacy of the Transatlantic slave trade, and changes the collective perception of historic ethnic "purity") - https://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/the-curious-case-of-mr-hans-jonatan-iceland-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-and-genetics-in-archaeology/
- found: Palsson, G. The man who stole himself: the slave odyssey of Hans Jonathan, 2016:title page (Hans Jonathan)
- found: New York times, Apr. 15, 2018:page 4 (in article entitled, "A pioneer to Iceland, a footnote to Denmark"; Hans Jonathan was born in 1784 in St. Croix, then a Danish possession; his mother was a black house slave owned by the Schimmelmanns, a Danish-German family, and his father was a white man; at age 7, the Schimmelmanns took him to Copenhagen; in 1801 he volunteered to serve in the Danish navy and saw fierce combat; Hans Jonathan earned the support of his superior officers who spoke on his behalf to the royal household, and he was freed based on a letter from the crown prince, the future King Frederik VI; when a Danish court later ordered him returned to the Schimmelmanns, Hans Jonathan feld to Iceland, settled in the small village of Djupivogur, married a local woman and had a family, and lived as a free man until his death in 1827.)
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- 2015-01-29: new
- 2018-04-16: revised
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