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The Theologian Slave Trader I Christiana Oware Knudsen (2010)
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A Personal commentary on Fredericus Svane Africanus'
autobiography.
The Theologian Slave Trader explores the life of Fredericus Petersen, a
mulatto adopted in 1710 by a Danish Lutheran Priest at Christiansborg Fort
in what is now Ghana and who was subsequently brought back to Denmark as a
teenager. The Danish king, no less, Frederik IV, was his godfather.
Fredericus Petersen wrote a compelling autobiography which for many years
has been largely ignored.
In The Theologian Slave Trader, Dr Christiana Oware Knudsen, herself a Ghanaian who for 50 years has lived in Denmark,
brings this autobiography, The General Declaration, to life and contemporary
relevance by contextualising Africanus' experience within a personal
commentary on her personal family history in Ghana.
Dr Knudsen approaches this historical material with the lively and engaging
approach of an African story-teller, interweaving historical facts with
family legends and documented impressions of the period. In so doing, she
also poses a number of challenging contemporary questions about aspects of
our understanding of slavery and inter-cultural relations.
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