Copenhagen has a dark history that few people know about... The Slaves of Copenhagen is a dramatized, historical audio tour that takes you on a walk from Nyhavn and into the area around Amalienborg Castle in Copenhagen.
Along the way, you will be introduced to unique Copenhagen buildings and sculptures that draw blood-red threads directly back to Denmark's time as a slave-trading nation. You will also be taken to Ghana in the year 1802. Here you will experience up close how the 14-year-old Kwame is kidnapped by slave hunters. You follow his cruel journey from the African coast across the merciless Atlantic to a new life in the New World.
Highlights
From 1 hour to 2 hours
Offered in English & Danish
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
From 1 hour to 2 hours
Offered in English & Danish
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Download of the podwalk for offline use
Mobile app for Android and iOS
Smartphone and headphones
Transportation
Food and drinks
Meeting Points
Departure
Nyhavn 11
The Slaves of Copenhagen is a self-guided, dramatized audio walk that you can complete at your own pace while visiting Copenhagen.
The podwalk runs on a mobile app. We recommend that you download the app before arrival.
Return
Bredgade 45
The podwalk will end in Bredgade, close to Amalienborg Palace, where you will see one of the historical buildings connected to the Danish slave trade.
Historical Pod Walk Tour on the Slaves of Copenhagen
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About
Copenhagen has a dark history that few people know about... The Slaves of Copenhagen is a dramatized, historical audio tour that takes you on a walk from Nyhavn and into the area around Amalienborg Castle in Copenhagen.
Along the way, you will be introduced to unique Copenhagen buildings and sculptures that draw blood-red threads directly back to Denmark's time as a slave-trading nation. You will also be taken to Ghana in the year 1802. Here you will experience up close how the 14-year-old Kwame is kidnapped by slave hunters. You follow his cruel journey from the African coast across the merciless Atlantic to a new life in the New World.
Highlights
From 1 hour to 2 hours
Offered in English & Danish
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
From 1 hour to 2 hours
Offered in English & Danish
Non-refundable
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Download of the podwalk for offline use
Mobile app for Android and iOS
Smartphone and headphones
Transportation
Food and drinks
Meeting Points
Departure
Nyhavn 11
The Slaves of Copenhagen is a self-guided, dramatized audio walk that you can complete at your own pace while visiting Copenhagen.
The podwalk runs on a mobile app. We recommend that you download the app before arrival.
Return
Bredgade 45
The podwalk will end in Bredgade, close to Amalienborg Palace, where you will see one of the historical buildings connected to the Danish slave trade.
Itinerary
1
Nyhavn
Nyhavn n.11 is the starting point of this podwalk and of the exploration of Copenhagen's history of slave trading.
7 minutes
2
Odd Fellow Palæet
The mansion of an owner of a slave plantation in Saint Croix.
6 minutes
3
Yellow Palace
Today, it hosts the administration of the royal household. In the past, the house of the man with near monopoly on the transatlantic slave trade from the Gold Coast to the Danish West Indies and Copenhagen.
6 minutes
4
Copenhagen Admiral Hotel
Today it's a hotel, but in 1787 this was one of the warehouses owned by the Danish West India–Guinea Company in Copenhagen.
5 minutes
5
Vestindisk pakhus
Today, it hosts the Royal Cast Collection. But it hasn't always been like that.
6 minutes
6
Rytterstatue af Frederik V
The statue is one of the clearest symbols of Danish colonial history.
6 minutes
7
Odd Fellow Palæet
Danish-Scottish merchant Christopher MacEvoy once was the owner of this impressive building. His family was probably the largest slave-owning family in the West Indies.
