Other digitized materials

SweCarCol has made other digital materials available which, for different reasons, is not available through the search interface.

Fonds suédois de Saint Barthélemy microfilms

Parts of Fonds suédois de Saint Barthélemy were microfilmed during the 1960s and 1970s.  A few additional microfilms were produced during the 1980s. The scanned microfilms are available in pdf format via ALVIN, where the holdings are described in more detail. The quality of the microfilms varies, and in many cases the order of the documents does not match the one found by the project group during the digitization of Fonds Suédois de Saint Barthélemy during the 2010s. Therefore, the microfilms are a record of how the documents were ordered when they were initially photographed. There are archival inventories of the microfilms from the Swedish National Archives and from Archives Nationales d'outre-mer.

The Report of St. Bartholomew

An important source for the history of St. Barthélemy is the colony's newspaper, The Report of St. Bartholomew. It was printed in Gustavia with varying frequency between 1804 and 1819. Instead of including the newspaper in the digital holdings of SweCarCol, the project financed its digitization in the Swedish Royal Library's service, Swedish newspapers. You can access the newspaper here. If you are interested in the history of the newspaper and the printing business in Gustavia, see this article.

 

The Report of St. Bartholomew, 28 May 1804. On the right hand page a tariff is displayed, which details the tax on enslaved people from Africa that are brought into the Swedish island to be sold.

Older digitized literature pertaining to St. Barthélemy, slavery and colonialism written in Swedish, or by Swedish authors

Olof Swartz, Inträdes-tal innehållande anmärkningar om Vestindien (Stockholm 1790). Full-text online  and in the library catalogue Libris.

Bengt Euphrasén, Beskrifning öfver svenska vestindiska ön St. Barthelemi, samt öarne St. Eustache och St. Christopher (Stockholm 1795). Full-text online and in the library catalogue Libris.

Sven Dahlman, Beskrifning om S. Barthelemy, swensk ö uti Westindien (Stockholm 1786). Full-text online and in the library catalogue Libris.

Carl Bernhard Wadström, Anmärkningar rörande slaf-handeln på kusten af Guinea (Norrköping 1791). Full-text online and in the library catalogue Libris.

Carl Bernhard Wadström, An essay on colonization particularly applied to the western coast of Africa, with some free thoughts on cultivation and commerce; also brief descriptions of the colonies already formed, or attempted, in Africa, including those of Sierra Leona and Bulama. By C. B. Wadström. In two parts. (London 1794–1795). Full-text online and in the library catalogue Libris.

Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp, Tillförlåtlig underrättelse om negrerne på Gvinea kusten, samt de derifrån hämtade slafvars närvarande belägenhet, medfart, seder och sinnelag. Under deras träldom på de christnas nybyggen i Vestindien (Uppsala 1784). Full-text online and in the library catalogue Libris.

E. O. E. Högström, S. Barthelemy under sven[s]kt välde (Uppsala 1888). Full-text online and in the library catalogue Libris.