St. Croix Tradesmen and Their Stories from the danish colonial period
An Enslaved Carpenter on Fisher street
A Tradesman, a House on Fisher Street, and an Unusual Record of Enslavement
John William Hoystrup:
A Mason Who Bought Freedom Twice.
Nero: An Enslaved Mason At Rust Op Twist
Labor, Family, and the Built Landscape of Enslavement
Petrus Simmons: The Mason of Estate Cane Valley
Enslaved from birth until emancipation,
Petrus learned his father’s trade and passed it to his freeborn son
