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Mémoire St Barth; Government. Collectivity of Saint Barthélemy (official government website) (in French) Comité Territorial du Tourisme (tourism board website) (in French) Historical and botanical information. Mémoire St Barth: Saint-Barthelemy's history (slave trade, slavery, abolitions)
Between a third to half of Saint Barthélemy's population were registered slaves in 1819 (estimations are between 1,283 and 2,033 slaves). [4] [7] On 31 October 1786, the Swedish West India Company was established on the island with responsibility for maintaining the port and the employment of Swedish officials. By the end of the century ...
Mémoire St Barth | History of St Barthélemy (archives & history of slavery, slave trade and their abolition) [permanent dead link ], Comité de Liaison et d'Application des Sources Historiques. McAlinden, Tom (2007). Sweden's slave trade. Network Europe, Radio Broadcast, 30 March 2007.
The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre: The mysteries of a crime of state (2015) online; Robert Kingdon. Myths about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres, 1572–1576 (1988) James R. Smither, "The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and Images of Kingship in France: 1572–1574." The Sixteenth Century Journal (1991): 27–46. JSTOR 2542014; N. M ...
Gustavia (/ ˈ ɡ ʊ s t æ v i ə /, French:, Swedish: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtaviːa]) is the main town and capital of the island of Saint Barthélemy. Originally called Le Carénage, it was renamed in honor of King Gustav III of Sweden .
Fort Karl is a historic military fort located in Gustavia, the capital of Saint Barthélemy. It was built by the Swedish in 1789 and was named for Karl XIII . Today, the location of the fort's remains is a protected site .
Also known as Saint Barth in French, or St. Barts in English, the collectivity is one of the four French territories in the Leeward Islands that comprise the French West Indies, and it is the only one to have historically been a Swedish colony.
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