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Slave trade was outlawed in Britain in 1807, and in the United States in 1808, after which other countries started to follow suit. Sweden made the slave trade illegal as part of the Treaty of Stockholm with Britain in 1813, but allowed slavery until October 9, 1847.
Jun 5, 2023 · Introduction. Why did Sweden not become a more prominent slave-trading power? The two periods in which Swedish mercantile efforts in the slave trade culminated coincide with Swedish ownership of the West African outpost of Cabo Corso (1650–1663) and the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy (1784–1878).
Between the late seventeenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century, Scandinavians participated in the Atlantic slave trade like other Europeans. This trade led to the founding of Danish and Swedish establishments in Africa and the West Indies.
By the middle of the 17th century, the Swedish Empire had reached its greatest territorial extent. The Swedes sought to extend their influence by creating an agricultural ( tobacco ) and fur trading colony to bypass French, English and Dutch merchants.
Research on the intra-American slave trade has gained a renewed interest with publications like Greg O’Malley’s Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807. 96 The same could be said of the slave trade in the Indian Ocean with works like Richard Allen’s European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500 ...
Slave trade; Swedish colonial history; empire; transimperial history Introduction Why did Sweden not become a more prominent slave-trading power? The two periods in which Swedish mercantile efforts in the slave trade culminated coincide with Swedish ownership of the West African outpost of Cabo Corso
The Swedes sought to extend their influence by creating an agricultural and fur trading colony to bypass French, British, and Dutch merchants. They therefore formed the New Sweden Company to promote this agenda.
