05 APR 2018: Two artists have unveiled a statue which questions Denmark’s colonial past in the Caribbean and its role in slavery, in the Danish capital. The sculpture, dubbed “I am Queen Mary” is said to be the first statue of a black woman publicly displayed in Denmark.

The statue is seven-meters (23-feet) tall

It depicts a black woman sitting proudly in a chair, holding a torch in one hand and a cane cutter in the other in a reference to plantation slaves’ struggle for freedom.

Virgin Islands-based artist La Vaughn Belle and her Danish colleague Jeannette Ehlers said Wednesday the figure represents Mary Thomas, a slave who led an uprising in the former Danish colony of St. Croix in 1878.