Voices from the Colonies

The National Museum's new exhibition about Denmark's colonial history in the West Indies, India, West Africa and Greenland is not about trade, commodities and resources but about people. We meet the West Indian rebel Queen Mary, the Gold Coast slave trader Ludvig Rømer, the Greenlandic prophet Habakuk, the enslaved West Indian Franciscus, and many more. People who embody dramatic stories of loss, divided families, fear and violence. But also hope, broken chains and the power of uprising.