Editing Atlantic slave trade (section)

====Denmark====
Denmark had a foothold in Ghana for more than 200 years and trafficked as many as 4,000 enslaved Africans per year.<ref>{{cite book |last=Andrews |first=Kehinde |year=2021 |title=The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World |place=London |publisher=Allen Lane |page=98 |isbn=978-0-241-43744-5}}</ref>
Danish Foreign Minister, Uffe Ellemann-Jensen declared publicly in 1992:
"I understand why the inhabitants in the [[Danish West Indies|West Indian Islands]] celebrate the day they became part of the U.S. But for Danish people and Denmark the day is a dark chapter. We exploited the slaves in the West Indian Islands during 250 years and made good money on them, but when we had to pay wages, we sold them instead, without even asking the inhabitants (...) That really wasn't a decent thing to do. We could at least have called a referendum, and asked people which nation they wanted to belong to. Instead we just let down the people."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Andersen |first=Astrid Nonbo |title="We Have Reconquered the Islands": Figurations in Public Memories of Slavery and Colonialism in Denmark 1948–2012 |journal=International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society |volume=26 |number=1 |year=2013 |pages=57–76 |doi=10.1007/s10767-013-9133-z |jstor=42636435 |s2cid=189952970}}</ref>{{rp|69}}