The little-known role Sweden played in the colonial slave trade - The Local
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Faaid Ali-Nuur works at adult education association ABF as a national coordinator and previously helped to set up a Stockholm walking tour with the National Afro-Swedish Association, based around Sweden’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
The idea was to better educate Swedes on a grim chapter in their country’s history by showing them the places and objects linked to the slave trade, as part of a wider project called Afrophobia then and now.
Skeppsbrokajen, a quay in Gamla Stan, is where Sweden’s first slave trade expedition landed on its return from the Caribbean, with four black children onboard who were brought to Sweden and likely ended up as slaves for wealthy Stockholmers. Not far away is the Slussen area, where iron from Swedish mines was sent to slave-trading countries including the UK.
“This was to be used as chains, shackles and many more things during the slave trade. These are central locations and people go past them every day without thinking about the meaning they had for the Swedish economy, and that black people were the victims,” he says.
