You are standing in front of Nyhavn 11, which is now a tourist restaurant. At this address there used to be a sugar refinery owned by Ludig Ferdinand Rømer. Rømer was the head merchant at the Danish fort Christiansborg (today Osu Castle in Ghana), from where he led the trade in enslaved people. After the termination of his position in Ghana he traveled back to Copenhagen and opened a sugar refinery in Nyhavn 11 in 1754, which was one among 18 sugar refineries in Copenhagen at the time. In 1755 the sugar refineries were described as Denmark's most important industry, and sugar was the most exported good. Under the street sign Nyhavn 11 you see the little sculpture Peter Sukkertop (The Sugar Loaf Man).

“Hvem er det der banker? Det er Peter Anker.
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Hvem er det der lukker op? Det er Peter Sukkertop”
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A famous Danish children's nursery rhyme:

But what does Peter Sukkertop mean? And who is Peter Anker? And why was colonialism lulled into a song for children:

We can forgive but have we forgotten

What's been taken from us?
stuff never borrowed and never returned

We shapeshift from sorrows to joy

But can we erase the marks of whip lashes
on our colonial subconsciousness

And while we forget the past

Can we remember the trespassing of native lands and its people?

Can we resolve the dilemma, with a vulgar catchphrase such as “survival of the fittest”?

Can we justify the beatings, the torture, the caging across the seas?

Highly esteemed around these streets

If a home is where the heart is, can we ever gain inner peace?