"Africans in New Sweden: The Untold Story" with Abdullah Muhammad

Published: May 15, 2017, 1 p.m.

Historian Abdullah R. Muhammad examines a previously little-known and virtually untold aspect of Delaware's history\u2014the hidden role of Africans in the often brutal mercantile expansionism by European colonizers in the 17th century. 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.