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General information about the website

This website was started as an idea to visualise a difficult topic, namely, the colonial period and slavery.

This is a product thesis that will be handed in during the summer of 2025.

 

The main point of the website is to try to convey what the island of St. Croix looked like in the year 1799 based on the cadastral records. This is done in the hope of providing a deeper insight into the scale of sugar production that took place on the island.

At the same time, the goal is that the map can be used by people interested in history, genealogists and others. The website is non-profit and open-source.

Access to the website will remain free, and there will be no charge for access to the map or the transcribed sources.

However, the transcriptions cannot be used for commercial purposes without written permission.

Who is behind the site

Hello, my name is Erik LL Oehlerich.
I am a master's student in my 10th semester at the history program at Aarhus University.

This is my product thesis, which will show the extent of slavery on the island of St. Croix in 1799.

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Update 20/8 2025

To improve the user experience, the images have been changed from PNG to JPG format. This change has been made to make it easier to load the images on the map, which should improve the user experience, especially on mobile, and improve data consumption as the JPG format generally takes up less space than PNG. The images should be of the same quality, and the PNG images are still available via GitHub.

In addition, there will be new updates to the map, hopefully before 2026, in the form of the last plantations that I did not have time to transcribe.

At the same time, final preparations are being made in the hope of including the towns, as there are cadastral registers for both Christianssted and Frederikssted that make it possible to map the towns in the same year.

With best regards, Erik Oehlerich.
 

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