You are standing in front of a building that does not look like all the other old warehouse and new real estate that you have passed by. That big gray building on Strandgade 100 is the home of Kriminalforsogen (The Danish Prison and Probation Service).

“The demands of the slave on the present have everything to do with making good the promise of abolition, and this entails much more than the end of property in slaves. It requires the reconstruction of society which is the only way to honor our debt to the dead. This is the intimacy of our age with theirs – an unfinished struggle. To what end does one conjure the ghost of slavery, if not to incite the hopes of transforming the present?”. - Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother (2007), p.170