| LC control no. | n 2015006400 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Hans Jónatan, 1784-1827 |
| Variant(s) | Jónatan, Hans, 1784-1827 Jonathan, Hans, 1784-1827 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000445905380 314807837 https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q16739929&oldid=630907092 |
| Associated place | Copenhagen (Denmark) |
| Located | Djúpivogur (Iceland) |
| Birth date | 1784 |
| Death date | 1827 |
| Place of birth | Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands) |
| Place of death | Iceland |
| Field of activity | Freedmen Slaves Sugar plantations |
| Found in | Hans Jónatan, 2014: t.p. (Hans Jónatan) p. 10 (b. 1784) p. 179 (d. 1827) Middle Savagery Website, Aug. 5, 2015 (Hans Jonatan was born into slavery in 1784 on a sugar plantation in St. Croix, a Danish colony in the Caribbean; transferred to Copenhagen, sentenced to go back to St. Croix after the abolition of slavery in Denmark, then escaped to Iceland, where he raised a family and became one of the first people of colour to live in Iceland; the life and eventual ancestors of Hans Jonatan highlights the complicated genetic legacy of the Transatlantic slave trade, and changes the collective perception of historic ethnic "purity") <https://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/the-curious-case-of-mr-hans-jonatan-iceland-the-transatlantic-slave-trade-and-genetics-in-archaeology/> Palsson, G. The man who stole himself: the slave odyssey of Hans Jonathan, 2016: title page (Hans Jonathan) New York times, Apr. 15, 2018: page 4 (in article entitled, "A pioneer to Iceland, a footnote to Denmark"; Hans Jonathan was born in 1784 in St. Croix, then a Danish possession; his mother was a black house slave owned by the Schimmelmanns, a Danish-German family, and his father was a white man; at age 7, the Schimmelmanns took him to Copenhagen; in 1801 he volunteered to serve in the Danish navy and saw fierce combat; Hans Jonathan earned the support of his superior officers who spoke on his behalf to the royal household, and he was freed based on a letter from the crown prince, the future King Frederik VI; when a Danish court later ordered him returned to the Schimmelmanns, Hans Jonathan feld to Iceland, settled in the small village of Djupivogur, married a local woman and had a family, and lived as a free man until his death in 1827.) |
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