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Sweden was also a major supplier of iron for chains used in the slave trade. [11] Slavery was legislated in Saint-Barthélemy under the Ordinance concerning the Police of Slaves and free Coloured People [12] dated 30 July 1787, original [13] in French dated 30 June 1787. In the autumn of 1786, the Swedish West India Company was established on ...
Swedish Colonial Empire and its protectorates The Swedish are invited by the Akan King of Futu to erect a "stony house" for the purpose of trade, Swedish Gold Coast, 17th century. Anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism in Sweden are rooted in the history of the Swedish colonization of the Indigenous Sámi people, the Swedish slave trade, and ...
African immigrants to Sweden include naturalized citizens and residents of Sweden who were born in Africa. As of 2020, there are 236,975 people in Sweden who were born in Africa. [2] [3] By 2022, this number rose to 250,881 residents of Sweden who were born in Africa, or approximately 1.5-2% of the total population. [4]
The Swedish Empire or the Age of Greatness (Swedish: stormaktstiden) [1] was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region.
I recently had a fascinating meeting with the Swedish ambassador to the United States, Urban Ahlin, who made me wonder if America should be more like Sweden. Over lunch, Ahlin explained that ...
A woman is going viral after sharing the biggest “culture shocks” she experienced after moving to Sweden. The list of surprising cultural differences comes courtesy of a TikTok user named ...
Nordicism is an ideology which views the "Nordic race" (a historical race concept) as an endangered and superior racial group.Some notable and influential Nordicist works include Madison Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race (1916); Arthur de Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853); the various writings of Lothrop Stoddard; Houston Stewart Chamberlain's The ...
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