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		Og det gode ved det - for von Scholten - er, at han hver gang får lov til at beholde det lukrative hverv, som han bliver forfremmt fra.
		Von Scholtens bror, Frederik von Scholten, der er Toldfoged i Frederiksted, kører hurtigt til Christiansted.
		Von Scholten er imidlertid på det tidspunkt en meget syg mand, og han forlader København og flytter ned til sin datter i Hamborg, hvor han dør den 26.
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	U.S. Virgin Islands
		1784 - 1787 Henrik Ludvig Ernst von (s.a.)
		1818 - 1820 Peter Carl Frederik von Scholten (s.a.)
		1823 - 1826 Peter Carl Frederik von Scholten (s.a.)
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	Peter von Scholten - Wikipedia
		Og det gode ved det, for von Scholten, er at han hver gang får lov til å beholde det lukrative verv som han blir forfremmet fra.
		Von Scholtens bror, Frederik von Scholten, som er tollfogd i Frederiksted, drar umiddelbart til Christiansted.
		Von Scholten er imidlertid på det tidspunkt en meget syk mann, og han forlater København og flytter ned til sin datter i Hamburg, hvor han dør den 26.
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	Kulturcentret Assistens
		Kulturcentret påtog sig opgaven, fordi Peter von Scholten ligger begravet på Assistens kirkegård i kirkegårdens eneste mausoleum.
		Peter von Scholten gjorde som guvernør en betydningsfuld indsats for at forbedre slavernes vilkår.
		Peter von Scholten stod stærkt, fordi han blev bakket op af sin ungdomsven, den enevældige konge Frederik den 6.
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	Peter von Scholten - Wikipedia
		Peter Carl Frederik von Scholten (1784-1854) blev født i Viborg som søn af kaptajn ved Kronprinsens Regiment Casimir von Scholten.
		Peter von Scholten havde på de vestindiske øer en samleverske ved navn Anna Heegaard (1790-1859).
		Også Peter von Scholtens bror Frederik gjorde karriere på de vestindiske øer.
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	Peter von Scholten - Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Peter von Scholten married the daughter of captain of the Danish army Johan Thortsen, Anne Elisabeth Thortsen, on October 31, 1810.Bricka, Biografisk, 257
		Croix in 1848.Bricka, Biografisk, 258 Peter von Scholten responded by emancipating all slaves in the Danish West Indian Islands.
		Shortly thereafter, von Scholten was called back to Denmark.Bricka, Biografisk, 258 There, a humiliating and hard trial was brought against him, and he was at first denied his pension, although he was later cleared of the charges and acquitted shortly before his death.
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	Peter von Scholten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Von Scholten kommer tilbage til St. Croix og modtages med fuld musik.
		Peter fremlægger kongens plan for frigivelse af slaverne men vil ikke sætte den i værk.
		Von Scholten bliver tvunget til at frigive alle slaver på en gang og han rejser fra øerne.
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	A quick tour of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
		The first foreign salute to the U.S. flag was given at Fort Frederik in 1776.
		At the Fort on July 3, 1848, Governor General Peter Von Scholten emancipated the slaves in the Danish West Indies.
		The Fort has been restored in brick red and white, to the way it looked in 1840; the Fort actually dates back to the 18th century.
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	The Virgin Islands Daily News - A Pulitzer Prize Winning Newspaper
		Messages were sent from Danish authorities to von Scholten, begging him to come to Frederiksted since it was clear that if the slaves became hostile, they would burn the town and kill every white person within reach.
		The whipping post, a device used to beat slaves within an inch of their lives, was torn from the ground and the slaves carried it to the wharf, throwing it as far out to sea as possible.
		One historical account states that once von Scholten arrived in Frederiksted, he immediately went into the fort to be briefed on the events.
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	olwig on golden memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The description of Peter von Scholten's freeing of the slaves is placed close to a picture illustrating the decline, which began in the second half of the nineteenth century.
		The chronological summary mentioned briefly that Governor-general Peter von Scholten liberated the slaves after a slave revolt led by the freedman "Moses `Buddhoe' Gottlieb." It is only Peter von Scholten who is given a central position at the exhibit itself, where his emancipation of the slaves is viewed as illustrating his great humanitarian role.
		(10) Peter von Scholten, who was praised at the exhibit for his efforts to help the Black population of the islands, was also of foreign origin, the family having come to Denmark from Amsterdam (Lawaetz 1940:229).
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	Peter Von Scholten - Synopsis - Moviefone
		Appointed by King Frederick VI (Henning Moritzen) as governor of the Virgin Islands, Peter fights for the education and liberation of the island's fl residents, former slaves, while keeping a fl mistress on the islands and a wife at home in Denmark.
		Peter establishes schools for the children and avoids a bloody insurgence from locals bent on violent overthrow of the government.
		The former governor is charged with treason and dies a dejected man soon after the unfair charges are overturned.
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	Amazon.com: "Peter von Scholten": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		What had been denied to the free-negroes in 1816 was achieved ;oy Peter von Scholten, Governor-General of the Virgin IL ands after 1827.
		Under the governorship of Peter von Scholten, slavery was abolished in the Danish West Indies (now the U.S. Virgin Islands) in 1848.
		CROIX 739 also here on July 3, 1848, that Governor-General Peter von Scholten emancipated the slaves in the Danish West Indies in response to a slave uprising led by a young man named...
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		While on Government Hill, travelers may also visit the former home of Peter von Scholten, who first was the harbor master of St. Thomas and later governor general of the Danish West Indies.
		Built in the 18th-century and now a private residence, Crown House is the stately, three-story West Indian structure von Scholten inhabited until 1822, when as governor he moved to Christiansted, St. Croix, then the capital of the Virgin Islands.
		Visitors may also walk through Emancipation Garden, appropriately named in commemoration of Governor Peter von Scholten's emancipation of the slaves on July 3, 1848.
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	ArawakRoots.com Caribbean News
		General Buddhoe rode into town dressed in a Danish military jacket and demanded that the slaves be freed by noon that day or the town would be burned to the ground.
		He extended it to 4 pm to give Gov. Peter von Scholten time to arrive in Fredericksted.
		Von Scholten arrived in time and declared, “All unfree in the Danish West Indies are from today emancipated.”
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	Attractions on St. Croix: Frederiksted
		The salute of Old Glory which had been raised on an American brigantine at port in Frederiksted was a violation of the laws of Denmark’s neutrality however the islands had helped the British colonist in America sealing a friendliness between the two colonies, and the salute was therefore appropriate.
		It is from this fort that Danish Governor Peter Von Scholten emancipated the slaves on July 3rd, 1848.
		This pleasant Federiksted park honors the slave revolt leader General Buddhoe and also serves to recall and honor the 1848 proclamation by Governor Peter von Scholten that emancipated slaves in the Danish islands.
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	HOVENSA L.L.C.
		The slaves on St. Croix were discontented with their status, and staged a protest demanding their freedom in 1848.
		Governor Peter Von Scholten proclaimed all slaves free on July 3, 1848, but his actions were considered illegal by the Danish government.
		Riots and dissention between slaves and plantation owners resulted, culminating in an 1878 riot which left numerous homes and plantations in ruins.
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	GORP - Christiansted National Historic Site in the U.S. Virgin Islands
		Under Governor General Peter von Scholten, an aristocrat with a taste for ceremony, the military on St. Croix enjoyed perhaps its best years.
		Peter von Scholten has never been forgotten for his role in freeing the slaves.
		He arrived in the islands as a young officer in 1803, rose through the ranks, and served as governor-general from 1827-48.
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	Cruise Genie: St. Thomas
		Yet through it all, trade somehow continued--and even flourished--until 1848, when Governor-General Peter von Scholten granted freedom to the slaves.
		The park is home to some of the finest tropical foliage on the island.
		Estate St. Peter Greathouse & Botanical Gardens: Nestled high in the volcanic peaks of St. Thomas is found the lavish Estate St. Peter Greathouse & Botanical Gardens.
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	Virgin Islands : Introduction : The Most Intriguing Historical Sites \| Frommers.com
		Among the many antiques here are memorabilia that belonged to Governor-General Peter von Scholten, who occupied the premises in 1827.
		Fort Frederik (St. Croix): This fort, completed in 1760, is said to have been the first to salute the flag of the newly formed United States.
		It was also here, in 1848, that Governor-General Peter von Scholten read a proclamation freeing the island's slaves.
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