Gisli Palsson: The Man Who Stole Himself

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Cover: 9780226313283 | The Man Who Stole Himself | The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan | Buch

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The island nation of Iceland is known for many things--majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood--but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable and compelling, the stuff of novels. In The Man Who Stole Himself, Gisli Palsson lays out Jonathan's story in stunning detail. Born into slavery in St. Croix in 1784, Jonathan was brought as a slave to Denmark, where he eventually enlisted in the navy and fought on behalf of the country in the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen. After the war, he declared himself a free man, believing that not only was he due freedom because of his patriotic service, but because while slavery remained legal in the colonies, it was outlawed in Denmark itself. Jonathan was the subject of one of the most notorious slavery cases in European history, which he lost. Then, he ran away--never to be heard from in Denmark again, his fate unknown for more than two hundred years. It's now known that Jonathan fled to Iceland, where he became a merchant and peasant farmer, married, and raised two children. Today, he has become something of an Icelandic icon, claimed as a proud and daring ancestor both there and among his descendants in America. The Man Who Stole Himself brilliantly intertwines Jonathan's adventurous travels with a portrait of the Danish slave trade, legal arguments over slavery, and the state of nineteenth-century race relations in the Northern Atlantic world. Throughout the book, Palsson traces themes of imperial dreams, colonialism, human rights, and globalization, which all come together in the life of a single, remarkable man. Jonathan literally led a life like no other. His is the story of a man who had the temerity--the courage--to steal himself.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	264
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780226313283
ISBN-10:	022631328X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Palsson, Gisli
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press
Maße:	236 x 156 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Gisli Palsson
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.09.2016
Gewicht:	0,646 kg

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