The Swedish Colonial Empire
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- In today's video, you'll be given the chance to find out everything you ever wanted to know about Sweden's Colonial Empire!
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Sources:
Ekengren, Frederik et al.: Sweden in the Delaware Valley. Everyday Life and Material Culture in New Sweden, in: Naum, Magdalena & Nordin, Jonas M. (ed.): Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity. Small Time Agents in a Global Area, New York et al. 2013.
Ekman, Ernst: Sweden, the Slave Trade and Slavery, 1784-1847, in: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer 62 (1975), Nr. 1&2, pp. 221-231.
Nováky, György: Small Company Trade and the Gold Coast: The Swedish Africa Company 1650-1663, in: Itinerario 16 (1992), Nr. 1, pp. 57-76.
Kent, Neil: A Concise History of Sweden, Cambridge 2008
Music Used:
Aboringman - Tunak Tunak Tun Orchestra Cover
Andree - Concert Ouverture in D-Major
Hallen - Die Toteninsel
Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
Tchaikovsky - Valse Sentimentale
Wait, so the French and the British East India Companies worked _together_ to destroy a Swedish trading post?
Miracles can happen ;D
I hate you!
Non, je desteste tu plus
*swedish noises in the distance*
Truce?
Oui, treve.
*swedish screaming ensues*
@@manofcultura Vik hädan engelskmän och fransoser!
@@thebronywiking bemanna kanonerna fö helvete!
The English and French navies worked together in the third anglo dutch war to destroy the dutch navy and invade the netherlands. But they ultimately failed even tho we were outnumbered.
Fun fact: at roughly the same time when the Indian trading port was established. King Gustav III was planning to establish a colony in Western Australia by the help of the Dutch-English explorer William Bolts.
A contract had been signed and preparations went underway, but sadly it’s funding got delayed when war broke out between Sweden and Russia and eventually the plan were cancelled.
I didn't actually know that, thanks for sharing!
@@SirManateee
During this empireal time Sweden founded the University of Greifswaild in todays Germany, by then a part of Sweden. Also many Swedish today legendary Scientists Rose to fame like Linné ,
Celsius , Scheele and Daniel Solander. The latter one was on the ship Endevour when Cook discovered Australia. Solander was a Biologist and was the first Scientist to do research about the very strange Australian
wilde life.
Sadly?
@@marble752 Yes, sadly. Not enough Swedish influence in the world sadly.
@@BelleroseQC i asked why they said sadly, that was me thinking they were okay with colonialism
According to Wiki, New Sweden was settled by 600 Swedes and Finns, a number of Dutchmen, a few Germans, a Dane, and at least one Estonian. Further investigation reveals that the half of the settlers were Finns. Hence the Delaware Finns and the southwest corner of the cape of Penns Neck, on the east bank of the Delaware River near its mouth on Delaware Bay, being called as Finns Point till today. There's also the Mullica River in southern New Jersey. Named after Eric (Erkki) Pålsson Mullica, an early Finnish settler to New Sweden. He and his family were the source of the name of several geographic features and places in New Jersey. Pålsson means 'Paul's Son' in Swedish. In Finnish 'Paavonpoika'. Eric's father was Pål (Paavo) Jönsson Mullica. The father of Pål (Paavo) was Juho Mullikka, who had earlier moved to Sweden from Finland. "Mullica" is a variation of the Finnish term 'mullikka', which means 'young bull'. Finns brought their carpentry skills and ways of working the land. The oldest log cabin still standing in its original location is in New Jersey due to those settlers. Also one of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, John Morton, was a descendant of those settlers. A Finnish settler Martti Marttinen was his great grandfather. The surname Marttinen was changed to Morton.
Ive heard that swedish-native relations were largely pleasant all things considered. Though some disgruntled forest finns fled the swedish colonies where they were treated as second class citizens to join up with the Ojibwe tribe. Where they still have some hybrid finnish-native American traits with Finnish surnames and a cultural love of saunas and the Finnish concept of sisu(stoic perseverance). Finndians are probably among the rarest ethnicities to exist.
Even the "Sovereign Military Order of Malta used to have a colonies in the Carribeans (Saint Croix, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Christophe, Saint Martin); Nowdays they still have their palace in Rome, considered as a foreign zone with post office and their embassies around the world.
Best summary of Sweden's colonial adventures ever.
The summary is also about all you need to know about it.
Thank you very much :D
I love the German pronunciation of Swedish names.
It is astounding how few subscribers you have when this content is equal or superior in quality to many others that have millions!
I try my best ;D
@@SirManateee And I’m sure every one of your subscribers are grateful for it!
Yes, I must agree. The TH-cam algorithms for pushing this channel are not doing their job. It is an unfair amount of subscribers.
The structure is of course simple but it's also very educational and quite entertaining if you are interested in the subject. Have to agree with you it's quite odd he doesn't have more subscribers.
Everyone has to start at zero subscribers. Anyway, Sir Manatee just got a new one.
Wonderful video! I'd just like to add a fun tidbit as well, that St. Barthélemy held a referendum in 1877 about joining France or to remain with Sweden. Only 1 person voted to stay with Sweden. Must be one of the most one-sided referenda ever to be held.
You should check out the Norwegian referendum in 1905 on wether to leave the union with Sweden or not. Percentage wise similar numbers.
One Funny thing though. The street names of St. Berthelemy still have Swedish names. A friend of mine spent his vacation there last year. So even if the population wanted to belong to France they still kept the Swedish names. Strange isnt it?
@@sellammar1
The US Virgin islands still have some Danish names too! guess sometimes it's easier to stick with what's familiar
filipinos have spanish names
Great content, may the algorithm be with you.
- Help Sweden set up a colonial company and establish colonies on Swedish expense
- Use the colony for export goods to desperate settlers
- Take over the colony you already heavily influenced from the start when Sweden was distracted
- Now you acquired a free colony that you helped set the foundation of, economically benefited of even before it was yours and not having given a penny on the building of the settlements and transport of the settlers
- g e k o l o n i s e e r d
Freaking dutch!
Is die ‘gekoloniseerd’ meme niet een beetje 9GAG 2011 achtig?
@@mycklaflonscamping1398 Wat?
trusting Dutch people is a rookie mistake
@@mycklaflonscamping1398 Ich sehe es immernoch sehr oft. Finde es interessant, dass Ihr im niederländischen das "ge"-Präfix vor das Wort kolonisieren setzt. Grüße vom Nachbarn.
you deserve a lot more than 200 subs. The production quality is great and your voice and explanation is loud and clear
he now has 664 subs. he will probably have alot more by a time not so far away
@@equation1321 And now there are over 10k subs
@@elkinkku yup see im like a future traveling person
Such an underrated channel
I like the pacing, the videos are informative, entertaining and visually appealing plus the topics instantly make me curious while not having been talked about often before
10/10 I've already shared it
Glad you like them :D
The Swedish Empire was truly impressive for it's population.
Sweden has always been impressive for it's size, They pretty much are Europe's true underdog comes out on top story.
@@ahamsam460 Yes, economically these days, and militarily back in the days, although still very militarily advanced. Just the thought of Russia getting beaten by a country with a twentieth of it's population is truly miraculous.
@@ahamsam460 dutch had even less at the time... a population of 2,7million is still quite alot in the 17th century, also it wasnt so much about the population, but rather the huge resources sweden had in its country, and the ability to arm and train the soldiers with best weapons and most advanced military tactics for the time. The true underdog story of europe is really the story of Finland, sweden is the child born with silver spoon. btw roughly 2/5 of the infantry and 3/7 of the cavalry in the swedish army were from Finland.
@@JH-fk8ow the dutch had a lot more than sweden though, they were central in Europe, had ports to the ocean (Swedens only coast to the atlantic was bordered by both Norway (controlled by denmark for the most part) and Denmark which was kinda Sweden's number one enemy), and the dutch population was higher than sweden's 1,8 million during 1700. Also sweden is mostly just forest and wilderness, like 70% today is just forest and it was mostly inhabitable because sweden doesnt really have rivers, we have streams with high currents and stuff but no real rivers that could be used for transport.
@@gabbemoja3647 that's why pretty much all large northern cities are situated at the ebb of a larger river, piteå, luleå, skellefteå and umeå is probably the largest cities in northern sweden. All situated at the mouth of rivers that go out into the baltic sea. Large part of swedens economy was timber, and how do you transport timber in the olden days? Log driving.
I'm glad I found your channel. Keep up the good work!
Glad you enjoy it here :)
Another under appreciated channel, i hope after a year or so you hit 100k
Im so glad i found this channel. Honestly it deserves so many more subscribers
Cheers!
I love the "Schuh des Manitu" references in 2:21 😂
Best film ever
Great job! Nice video
And I especially appreciate your efforts in pronouncing names in different languages correctly
Recommended caught me, and I'm glad. You've gained a sub!
Interesting fact, Philadelphia's city flag flies the Swedish colors since the area where the city would later be founded was originally the northern limits of New Sweden.
Good quality and a nice watch, keep it up👍
Your channel is indeed a hidden gem good sir!
Thank you! :S
God! This is an amazing channel!! Glad I found you!
Love this content, you got a new subscriber!
That was an amazing video, I'm so glad I stumbled upon this channel!
Now you should also make similar videos on Danish Colonial possessions and Norway's ridiculously late start and scramble for frozen islets
I should and I will ;D
But at least us Norwegians have kept most of our overseas empire.
@@HS-su3cf not most but all. And obviously I was joking around, I actually admire Norwegian Explorers that ventured into the harshest seas, and whose exploration and overseas expansion did not bring human suffering but rather valuable knowledge to the sience world.
Not to mention Norwegians beating the Brits in the race to the South Pole showing who's the real master of the South Ocean
@@julianwitkowicz9783 My reply was also meant to be humorously.
True enough but nonetheless there are enough Norwegians in Wisconsin that it's almost a de facto colony, at least if you squint.
Just subbed, commenting for the algorithm
I found out about the video and I think u deserve a sub hope u already monitize , great content by the way
Very good information video
Extremely trivial, but the map of Sweden includes the parts ceded to the Grand Duchy of Finland by the Russian Empire in 1833. But seemingly many maps do this.
Yes, for instance parts of the Salla territory were actually ceded from Russia to the Grand Duchy of Finland, but hey, Russia had and has 16% of the whole landmass of Earth, so why not.
Great video!
I thought this was a 100k subs channel, not a 1.5k subs channel. Great video, I didn't know this about my own country.
Great video. It deserves 10 times as many likes
Didn't expect a Schuh des Manitu reference in such a video :D
Cool videos - keep it up!
I will ;D
Excellent music choice.
Thanks!
This is great!
The main colonial project of Sweden was inside what is today still Sweden, developing the northern lands that were originally settled by the Sami people.
i wouldn't say settled by sami people, they lived there for sure but settled implies a less migratory lifestyle which to be fair they didnt quite have when the swedes arrived
To clarify, by "developing" you mean either completely ignoring or converting Sami to christianity? Not forgetting to tax them of course.
During the history, Sami never got any positive attention from any of the countries they have lived on: Norway, Sweden, Finland or Russia. The only question is "were they ignored as 'backwards' people, converted or tried to erase their culture to achieve an ouright cultural genocide?" The latter was what Russia did, the former choices are what the other nordic countries did.
There is no need to sugar coat the thing, no nordic country did any favours for the Sami. It's a small miracle that so much is left of the Sami people and their culture, even in the nordics.
@Andreas Andersson Du har det mest svenska namnet någonsin.
@@alaric_ problem?
I have made video's and Research on the New Sweden Colony, and I tell you there's not a lot of good video's about this topic, Great to see more video's about this!
Subbed! Keep up the good work m8 :)
Thanks! :)
Good video Subbed! :D
I highly respect you for saying the names correctly
Good video :D
Goddamm, bless the Algorithm this is some good, content! Keep up the good work, and glory to the Swedish empire!
May the sun never set on the Swedish Empire ;D
I would recommend the book "Slavhandel och slaveri under svensk flagg" by holger wiess. Its in swedish but its a good overview about swedish thoughts about colonialism and imperialism and also the everyday life on st bart
I was so happy that you made an effort to pronounce Swedish names correctly! Most youtubers just laugh at their inability to pronounce, so thank you for that ❤
But then you came to that Indian outpost... I imagine that the same Wikipedia pronounciation help that you used for the colonizers also work on the colonized?
Latvia, well a part of it called Courland , also had a few colonies back in the day, quite interesting
very cool video but you got one thing wrong when you mentioned the Swedish Africa Company you showed a bunch of forts. The thing you got wrong is that fort christiansborg was a danish fort in their colony
Norway had some pretty interesting settlements. They have a few Antarctic Islands, but they also just kinda settled wherever in other countries. As far as I know, they simply sailed to New Zealand, Brazil, and California, and just settled down.
Ut på tur, aldri sur
Norway saild to Brazil ? ... California? .. new zeeland..maby in paralel dimension .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg,_South_Africa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joinville
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsewood
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Colony
@@disturbedjester8154 The is immigration. One or two Norwegians taking a boat to brazil isn't a state endeavor
The black house featured featured early on is the Morton Homestead in Prospect Park Pa. Supposed to have been home of John Morton signer of Dec. of Ind.
They traveled up river on the Delaware River to present day Wilmington Del. That is where Ft Christina was situated.
Thank you for the content! I enjoyed your presentation. Honestly, I knew very little of the New Sweden and New Netherland. I did my DNA test through ancestry and have 20% Sweden. I recently discovered the Swedish line who settled in Pennsylvania. My ancestors were the VanCulen’s and Martensson’s, immigrating from Sweden and Finland. Martensson changed the name to Morton. John Morton was a signer to the Declaration of Independence. The history is fascinating. I’m proud of the family heritage and looking forward to learning all I can. Thank you!
That's actually fascinating
The martenssons would probably have spelled their name "Mårtensson". Mårten(pronounced as morten), a swedish version of Martin.
Well “VanCulen” seems like a Dutch name to me
@@ezravandesande5699 I think they were originally Dutch. I have other ancestors that married into the name that were from the Netherlands. Many came from Waarschijnlijk Hierden and Holland.
John Morton ‘owned’ slaves…
Yea not exactly the proudest line in my view, my ancestors were just farmers, hardworking and decent.
To be fair youd have to forcibly drag me to if you wanted me to go to DELAWARE
Is it that bad? xD
@@SirManateee when there only claim to fame is that there technically the first state its pretty bad lol
There where a comic in Sweden when I was young that told a story about a colony in Africa if I remember correctly.
Thank you! Im Swedish and this is so interesting and not well known.
As a swede, I knew little of this, thanks 👍
Cool! Swedish history!
There is the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia which been there for decades. On Pattinson Ave. very interesting
Why the colonization of Finland is only a side note? Its the same problem we have with Russia, and why we dont talk more about the colonializt system of FR..
Usually (incorrectly), the colonization of Finland by Sweden is thought as expansion.
The same story goes for Russia, when it colonized Siberia and the Far East.
I only focused on overseas colonies. The history of Swedish Finland is worth its own video
good video!! have my engagement
can you make video about Brandenburger Gold Coast
Yeah, I probably can
Does colonization only happen when it is happening far away from the 'motherland'?
For some reason when Sweden colonized Finland, it is referred to as expansion.
Same goes for Russia when they colonized Siberia.
Most historians would call that colonisation as well. But in this video, I only focused on overseas colonies.
Good video, never seen anyone talk about this era of Sweden as a swede i love this, keep it up. Pretty sure slavery became illegal 1863 tho
nah it was illegal since the 1300s but ppl didnt care about it
In USA
"gustavos Adulfus" Really chaught me off guard...
Cute maps but I have no idea where that Swedish colony was, why not begin by defining the location whereupon the settlers settled? Or use normal maps with the location highlighted instead of the word black white skeleton
Now its only fair if you do a video on the Danish colonial adventures
Can you remember me when you get famous?
I'll write your name down
So one story I have heard, and this could very much be wrong, was that one of the reasons Sweden gave up New Sweden to the Dutch was because they ran out of ammo for their guns.
Again I could be wrong but if that is true it shows how low supplies were for the colony.
one day the First Swedish galactic empire will rise.
Vi i Sverige va så bra på kolonisering. Nice video btw
And you're colonising the world again with ABBA and Ikea ;D
I loved your video!! Although your swedish didnt sound like swedish... XD
My apologies, I tried ;D
I understand that New Sweden introduced log cabins to North America.
Ylilauta?
Why are there more videos on the Swedish Colonial empire than the Dutch empire
Ah my ancestors glorious empire, that lasted for about five minutes.
0:33
What a weird spelling of his surname. Thought you got it wrong but it's correct of course.
I couldn't believe it myself
hard to convince people to travel across an ocean to settle a piece of land when most of your homeland isn't settled and you could just do the same at home.
Are you aware that your logo is exactly the same as a Finnish website called Ylilauta
Noooooooo way. This is a conspiracy
@@SirManateee How can 2 different entities come up with a gentleman seal/manatee with a tophat is beyond me haha :D good content tho brother
How the F* do you only have 271 subs
Now 279. Slowly growing. Won't be long until its counted in thousands and we have been here from close to the beginning 😃
Sweden also held Guadeloupe for a while during the Napoleonic wars.
Sweden: Look upon my mighty, and despair!
Lmao so Swedes started a sort of a self governed penal colony 140 years before the british did anything relative to that in Australia
Colonialisation seem to be business enterprises?
And lastly Johann Printz’s daughter Armegot Printz was the very first Feminist in America kept her fathers last name owned a brewery.
Swedish vikings founded Kiev.
the lake over Helsingfors looks like a dancing person
It genuinely makes me sad that Sweden didn’t find success in their colonies
Not me
@@kaksidaksi3455 why is that?
@@KaiserCeaser Because im Finnish
@@kaksidaksi3455 well That’s as good a reason as ever I guess.
As a Swede, yeah no. We could've had to carry a lot darker of a history. I'm glad the little history we have there was largely failed and/or privately driven.
Don't see why anyone would like _more_ colonialism
“ONLY” 400 he said, I suppose that makes it alright. Strange number of those slaughtered are typically omitted.
Why Sweden in 1648 and not in the decades afterwards, where they had even more land?
They had more land but they were economically broke
2:58 is this really Swedish, don’t recognise it
German spekers will get the reference at 2:20
Hehe
You forgot to mention that the Swedes sold back Sankt Barthélemy to the french for x bowl pound of silver, but did not take the money if the french promised to build a well and a hospital on the Island...
The French never did.
Sweden as a major colonial power? Can you imagine how many good looking people would exist in the world!?
We'll never know
I don't know about all that
imagine how many femboys would exist in the world
Imagine how many gay people would exist in the world
@@kaksidaksi3455 W pfp
Is it funny that Sweden's colonial ambitions was exhorted for by Dutch merchants? 🤣🤣🤣
Cheeky ;D
@@SirManateee the Dutch were the devil on Sweden's left shoulder hahaha
The surname "Rambo" came with the swedes to America at that time
😆🙃 Yeah, that is about all that can be said. And maybe it was for the best, watching how much damage other European colonisers have done not the least the Brits... Cheers from Sweden
You forgot the Swedish colony of Guadeloupe.
Swedish anthem says i wanna live i wanna die in the north so that explains why only 30 people left sweden :p
Love that Sweden did it better then UK atleast. Tbh, better than France, Spain and the Dutch.
Sweden: You know, i am something of a colonizer myself