From the Absolutism (1660) to the Age of Enlightenment (1800). From the introduction of Absolutism, a practice that gave King Frederik III unlimited power no longer subject to the nobility, to the Enlightenment; marked by scientific skepticism and rational ideas of liberty and equality, paving the way for a ban on slave trade in the Danish West Indies, and unprecedented rights for the lower class - allowing ordinary peasants to buy and own land.
—Maria