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St. Barthélemy (Swedish)

Sweden's only Caribbean colony, traded from France for harbor rights in Gothenburg.

Sold back to France in 1878.

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Further reading

• Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean Carrie Gibson · 2014

  Broad Caribbean history that covers the minor powers, including Sweden's lone Caribbean colony of St. Barthélemy.

• The Making of New World Slavery Robin Blackburn · 1997

  Atlantic-wide context for the smaller European slave-trading colonies (broad context, not St-Barth-specific).

Sources

• Saint Barthélemy — Wikipedia