The last weekend hosts the largest parties with J'ouvert at the crack of dawn, followed the next day with the Food Fair.
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Frederiksted is home to one of two deep water ports on St. Croix, the other being located at the South Port which includes Hovensa oil refinery tank farm and Renaissance Industrial Park.
He was born in Frederiksted, St. Croix, and moved to New York when he was a boy.
The governor at the time, Peter von Scholten, faced with thousands of enslaved Africans with burning torches threatening to burn down the town of Frederiksted, freed the slaves, even though the Danish Crown had so far intended that the last slaves would be emancipated in 1859.