It's a story (in German language) I didn't know anything about.
It's a story about a joung woman from Denmark who tries to find her Grandfather who was almost erased out of family memory - to find out that he was a son of a female slave of people from Denmark on the Virgin Islands ! Probable he was even a slave himself.
The article shows that she is able to trace back her ancestors 7 generations. She has visited the Virgin Islands and found a house where the mother of her Grandfather had worked, and probvably the ruins of the house where she had lived. She has even found her heritage : Her ancestor is a woman who was named Violet and who was "caught" in Africa and "sold" to the Virgin Islands, then still property of the state of Denmark. The islands were sold to the USA 1917.
The full backtracing of these generation lines is heavily supported by the bureaucratism of the people who "owned" the slaves and by the state Denmark itself : There had to be detailed records for taxes and for the slaves, who "owned" them, when they died etc. . This was done to prevent tax fraud and cheating.
The picture in the article shows the young woman with a picture of her Grandfather.
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