Scandinavia in the Atlantic World

Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974 (author): Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för ekonomi och samhälle, Ekonomisk historia,Department of Economy and Society, Economic History

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2018-07-30
2018
English.
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. - : Oxford University Press.

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Abstract Subject headings

The Scandinavian countries established overseas settlements in Africa and the Americas, starting in the seventeenth century. In Africa, trading stations were initially established with the consent of local rulers. The Danish trading stations on the Gold Coast would in time develop into a more formal colony. In the Americas, Scandinavian settlements were of various nature, including the short-lived settlement colony of New Sweden and slavery-based plantation societies in the Caribbean. The Caribbean colonies would bear much resemblance to many other Caribbean plantation economies of the time. The Scandinavian countries also participated in the transatlantic slave trade: while these countries might have been responsible for a quite small share of the total transatlantic slave trade, the trade was large if compared to the size of the domestic population in these countries. The formal abolition of the slave trade, and later also of slavery, in the Scandinavian colonies made the colonial possessions unimportant or even into burdens for the Scandinavian states, so that the colonies eventually were sold to other European nations.

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Ekonomisk historia (hsv//swe)
SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economic History (hsv//eng)
HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)
HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)

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SOCIAL SCIENCES: SOCIAL SCIENCES; and Economics and Bu ...; and Economic History

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