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41. RAK 446 nr. 830. – Det er nøje dokumenteret, for hvil-
ken pris hver enkelt slave blev solgt til hvem.
42. RAK 446 nr. 698, p. 159-162.
43. RAK 446 nr. 698, p. 199-201.
44. Vgl. RAK 446 nr. 26, p. 58-78, § 11.
45. RAK 446 nr. 698, p. 198.
46. RAK 446 nr. 470.
47. RAK 446 nr. 471.
48. RAK 446 nr. 765, p. 41f. – Om varerne til København,
se Erik Gøbel: Danish Trade to the West Indies and Guinea,
1671-1754, The Scandinavian Economic History Review 31
(1983), p. 30-34.
49. RAK 446 nr. 698, p. 141.
50. Se Gøbel: op. cit., 1991, p. 58.
51. Rheinheimer: Der fremde Sohn, p. 77, 137-143.
52. RAK 446 nr. 84.
53. Inventaret befinder sig i: LAA Retsbetjentarkiver, tillæg
24, f. 230v-236v. Det er aftrykt i: Martin Rheinheimer, Der
Nachlass von Hark Nickelsen und Marret Harken (1786),
Rundbrief des Arbeitskreises für Wirtschafts- und Sozialge-
schichte Schleswig-Holsteins 97 (2008), p. 29-45.
54. Sammenstillet fra LAA Retsbetjentarkiver, tillæg 22-
26; Martin Rheinheimer, Einschulden und Ausschulden
auf Westerlandföhr und Amrum 1763-1812, Rundbrief
des Arbeitskreises für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
Schleswig-Holsteins 89 (2004), p. 14-50. Jvf. også: Martin
Rheinheimer: The Captains’ Money: Capital and Credit on
the North Frisian Islands of Amrum and Föhr, 1763-1812,
International Journal of Maritime History 17, 2 (2005), p.
141-165.
55. Anna Hoffmann: Die Landestrachten von Nordfries-
land, Heide 1940, p. 155-159.
56. Jann Markus Witt: Master next God? Der nordeu-
ropäische Handelsschiffskapitän vom 17. bis zum 19.
Jahrhundert, Hamburg 2001, p. 205-266.
57. Rheinheimer: op. cit., 2005, p. 141-165; Erich Riewerts
& Brar C. Roeloffs: Föhrer Grönlandfahrer, 2. opl.,
Neumünster 1996, p. 258-260.
58. Rheinheimer: op. cit., 2005, p. 155.
59. Quedens: op. cit., 1994, p. 46-49.
Summary
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many Danish
sailors were employed in the trading companies established
by the shipping nations. The trading companies thus became
vital to the economies, cultures and societies of the maritime
populations. One example is the story of Hark Nickelsen
(1706-1770), a sailor from Amrum, who became wealthy
sailing with Danish West India-Guinea Company ships. In
his youth, he was enslaved in 1724 in Algeria and required to
work as a coffee pourer in the dey’s palace. In 1726 his free-
dom was bought with the assistance of the Portuguese, and
afterwards he sailed with Dutch ships. Between 1740 and
1749, he set out three times as captain of aWest India-Guinea
Company ship, the former slave thus becoming a slave trader
himself. In the triangular trade between Copenhagen, Guinea
and St. Thomas, he made a vast fortune from prizes and his
own business, which enabled him to retire relatively early.
By then he was by far the wealthiest man on his home island
of Amrum. It is possible to reconstruct the way he invested
his fortune from the way his estate was wound up, thus pro-
viding an insight into a rich captain’s finances and way of
life. On Amrum, it is still possible to see Hark Nickelsen’s
tombstone, which is decorated with an elaborate portrait of
a ship.