A note on the backstory: Slavery was not legal in Denmark proper in 1801 ("only" in the colonies). Hans Jonatan, when the case against him was brought before co

A note on the backstory: Slavery was not legal in Denmark proper in 1801 ("only" in the colonies). Hans Jonatan, when the case against him was brought before court, was explicitly not judged as a slave, but as someone not allowed residence in the country. He was to be deported back to the Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands), and that was the prospect from which he escaped to Iceland (then under the Danish-Norwegian crown). Tangential: The presiding judge was Anders Sandø Ørsted, brother of the Hans Christian Ørsted who set the whole electromagnetism thing in motion, and lends his name to the oersted unit.