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Africans in New Sweden — Muhammad '73

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By Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973

Historian Abdullah R. Muhammad examines a previously little-known and virtually untold aspect of Delaware’s history—the hidden role of Africans in the often brutal mercantile expansionism by European colonizers in the 17thcentury. 

Mr. Muhammad reveals for the first time details of the genesis of America’s racism. Swedish and Finnish communities on the East Coast, called New Sweden, played a significant role in forming the foundation upon which Delaware was eventually built, but at what cost?

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