Fredrik Thomasson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of History
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 15 30
- E-mail:
- fredrik.thomasson@hist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 A
- Postal address:
- Box 628
751 26 UPPSALA
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Media
Selection of reviews, videos, radio programs on my work
Reviews of my book Black S:t Barthélemy
Reviews of my book Black S:t Barthélemy
https://uppsala.box.com/s/he0b775ysctgzsb9zjxbsmamhotl0hv6
TV-reportage about monograph Black S:t Barthélemy
TV-reportage about monograph Black S:t Barthélemy
https://uppsala.box.com/s/7m5lc4kh1b74b0loredg3uzbvryvvds6
TV-reportage on Fredrik Thomasson's Caribbean research
TV-reportage on research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8puIkQN1E
V-log review by literary critic Yukiko Duke of Black S:t Barthélemy
V-log review by literary critic Yukiko Duke of Black S:t Barthélemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhMbdTYQB08
Interview on Swedish Television about my book Black S:t Barthélemy
Interview on Swedish Television about my book Black S:t Barthélemy
https://uppsala.box.com/s/1ng1cq5kwaax2180gth0q2k7fgrws7vw
Radio interview about my book Black S:t Barthélemy
Interview on Swedish Radio SR1 Vetenskapsradion Historia about my book Black S:t Barthélemy
https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/slavkolonin-sankt-barthelemy
Interview on Swedish Television TV4 Nyhetsmorgon
Interview on Swedish Television TV4 Nyhetsmorgon about my book Black S:t Barthélemy
https://uppsala.box.com/s/zct8ph1jber4wcbznug3zxi08y71a4uy
Newspaper and magazine articles on my research
Newspaper and magazine articles on my research
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Reviews of my earlier monographs
Reviews of my earlier monographs
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Television review of Svarta S:t Barthélemy
Television review of Svarta S:t Barthélemy
https://uppsala.box.com/s/n5kwd5q6nhw8r8abn6hosmnua0gabua8
Interview Swedish Television Science World
Interview on the decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Publications
Recent publications
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Svensk karibisk kolonialism och slaveri: Ny forskning och digitala arkiv
Part of Digitalisering av kulturarvssamlingar, p. 47-63, Makadam Förlag, 2025
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Part of Revue d'Histoire Haïtienne, p. 203-245, 2023
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Part of Revue d‘Histoire Haïtienne, p. 605-648, 2023
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Svarta Saint-Barthélemy: Människoöden i en svensk koloni 1785-1847
Natur och kultur, 2022
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Part of Social history of medicine, p. 49-71, 2022
- DOI for Black Healers, Surgeons and ‘Witches’: Medicine, Mobility and Knowledge Exchange in Swedish St Barthélemy 1785–1815
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Revue d'Histoire Haïtienne, p. 203-245, 2023
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Part of Revue d‘Histoire Haïtienne, p. 605-648, 2023
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Part of Social history of medicine, p. 49-71, 2022
- DOI for Black Healers, Surgeons and ‘Witches’: Medicine, Mobility and Knowledge Exchange in Swedish St Barthélemy 1785–1815
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The Caribbean Scorpion: The Saint Barthélemy Archive and Swedish Colonial Amnesia
Part of Small Axe, p. 53-66, 2020
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Révoltes et résistances dans la Caraïbe scandinave
Part of Revue du Philanthrope, p. 125-143, 2020
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Moors in the Caribbean, Sámi in the Seraglio: Swedish Theatre and Slavery Around 1800
Part of Modern Languages Open (MLO), p. 1-19, 2020
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Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 78-90, 2018
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Sweden and Haiti, 1791–1825: Revolutionary Reporting, Trade, and the Fall of Henry Christophe
Part of Journal of Haitian Studies, p. 4-35, 2018
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Entre rêves coloniaux et réalités politiques : La Guadeloupe suédoise 1813–1814 et sa suite
Part of Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire de la Guadeloupe, p. 105-122, 2018
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Tryckort Gustavia – nya svenska karibiska tidningar och slaveri 1804–1828
Part of Biblis, 2018
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Part of Cahiers des Anneaux de la Mémoire, p. 111-127, 2017
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32 piskrapp vid quatre piquets. Svensk rättvisa och slavlagar på Saint Barthélemy
Part of Historielärarnas förenings årsskrift, p. 7-29, 2013
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Johan David Åkerblad: Orientalist, Traveller, and Manuscript Collector
Part of Studia Orientalia, p. 463-491, 2013
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Att läsa egyptiska: J. D. Åkerblad och orientaliska studier under invasion och krig
Part of Lychnos, p. 7-39, 2010
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Part of International Journal of Cultural Property, p. 493-517, 2010
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Part of Forum Navale, p. 16-43, 2010
Books
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Svarta Saint-Barthélemy: Människoöden i en svensk koloni 1785-1847
Natur och kultur, 2022
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L'Œil de Stockholm: La correspondance du consul François Philippe Fölsch à Marseille (1780-1807)
Classiques Garnier, 2021
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Rosettastenens förste tolkare: Johan David Åkerblads liv i Orienten och Europa
Bokförlaget Atlantis, 2016
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The life of J.D. Åkerblad: Egyptian decipherment and orientalism in revolutionary times
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013
Chapters in book
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Svensk karibisk kolonialism och slaveri: Ny forskning och digitala arkiv
Part of Digitalisering av kulturarvssamlingar, p. 47-63, Makadam Förlag, 2025
- Download full text (pdf) of Svensk karibisk kolonialism och slaveri: Ny forskning och digitala arkiv
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Moors in the Caribbean, Sámi in the seraglio: Swedish theatre and slavery around 1800
Part of Colonialism and Slavery in Performance, p. 225-246, Liverpool University Press, 2021
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Knowledge, Silence and Denial: the late 18th century debate on Slavery and Colonialism in Sweden
Part of The Moment is Now, Swedenborg Foundation Publishers, 2019
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Gustavia Free Press?: Handwritten and Printed Newspapers in the Swedish Colony Saint Barthélemy
Part of Handwritten Newspapers, p. 60-77, The Finnish Literature Society (SKS), 2019
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Part of Ports of Globalization, Places of Creoloization. Nordic Possessions in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade, p. 280-305, Brill Academic Publishers, 2016
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Part of The city of the soul, p. 169-183, Svenska institutet i Rom, 2015
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Raynal and Sweden: Royal propaganda and colonial aspirations
Part of Raynal’s ‘Histoire des deux Indes’: colonialism, networks and global exchange, Oxford University Press, 2015
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Part of Les colonies, la Révolution française, la loi, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014
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Silvestre de Sacy et J. D. Åkerblad: Compétition et coopération en égyptologie
Part of Silvestre de Sacy, p. 271-293, Editions du Cerf, 2014
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Part of Les colonies, la révolution française, la loi, p. 231-249, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014
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Johan David Åkerblad’s (1763–1819) notebook Vat. lat. 9785: Between Rome and the Orient
Part of Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae 18, p. 497-516, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2011
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Part of Osmanlılar ve Avrupa, p. 299-317, İSAM-İslam Araştırmaları Merkezi, 2010
Monograph doctoral thesis
Other
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Henry Smeathman, the Flycatcher: natural history, slavery, and empire in the late eighteenth century
Part of Slavery & Abolition, p. 423-424, 2020
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Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 816-818, 2019
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Slave stories: law, representation, and gender in the Danish West Indies
Part of Slavery & Abolition, p. 414-415, 2019
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Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 743-745, 2018
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Part of European Review of History, 2011
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Part of Lychnos, 2010