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St. John was part of the Danish West Indies, where slavery ended in 1848.

Slavery in the Danish West Indies was abolished in 1848.

The daughter of a white Danish seamstress and a Black cook from the Danish West Indies, Larsen spent her early years in an interracial sliver of Chicago where all kinds of people commingled in saloons and brothels, far from the buttoned-up neighborhoods of elite white and elite Black society.

In his 1992 book, “Slave Society in the Danish West Indies,” the author and professor Neville A.T.

The nation’s colonies included the Danish West Indies, now the U.S.