The senders, in Creole Dutch, asked the Danish king to arrange for the missionaries of the Moravian Church, who provided them with a lot of support, to stay at Saint Thomas. “This shows that enslaved people learned to read and write and that they stood up for themselves,” said Madelon Grant of the Catherine Convent. She is one of the curators of the exhibition Christianity and slavery, which can be seen from June 29. The museum shows the letter in a copy that the Moravian Church itself made in 1739.
Special letter at the exhibition about slavery
