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Denmark unveils first statue dedicated to a black woman

Esther Olowoyeye by Esther Olowoyeye
April 9, 2018
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Denmark has unveiled its first statue of a black woman. She is Mary Thomas, the 19th century rebel who led the largest labour revolt in Danish colonial history.

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She is now being celebrated with a striking statue entitled, “I am Queen Mary”. It is thought to be Denmark’s first public monument(paywall) to a black woman.

Artist Jeannette Ehlers and Virgin Islander artist La Vaughn Belle say they teamed up to create a work that “challenges Denmark’s forgotten colonial past,” according to a recent statement.

Thomas is known as the “Queen of the Fireburn,” for the role she played in the uprising of 1878. Workers rebelled in the Danish colony St Croix (now part of the US Virgin Islands) after conditions did not meaningfully improve after the abolition of slavery. Many houses, mills, shops, and plantations were burnt down during the rebellion, which is locally known as “the Fireburn.”

There were three women who came to symbolize the resistance and Thomas was one of the three. The three women are referred to as Queens by local.

The rebellion was brutally suppressed and the three queens were arrested and served their prison sentence in Denmark.

Belle said in a statement: “Who we are as a society is largely about who we remember ourselves to be. This project is about challenging Denmark’s collective memory and changing it.” Ehlers claims that 98% of the statues in Denmark are of white men. “So like the Queens of the Fireburn took action and fought against the oppressive colonial system, we are confronting present day’s racism and Eurocentrism by claiming a space for our narratives.”

The statue currently sits near Copenhagen’s West Indian Warehouse, which once stored goods produced in Denmark’s former Caribbean colonies. It’s unveiling comes at the end of a centennial year commemorating the sale by Denmark of three islands— St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas—to the US.

The monument’s was created by using 3D-scanning technology and the figure is of two artists bodies. Thomas is holding a torch in one hand and cane bill in the other, which the artists say is “a reference the resistance strategies used by the colonized in their struggles for freedom.” Her seated pose is meant to evoke the iconic 1967 photograph of Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party.

While Denmark is widely known as the happiest country in the world, it has struggled to come to terms with what one journalist has dubbed “latent racial hostility” (paywall). Racial tensions have worsened as a result of Europe’s recent refugee crisis.

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