New Amsterdam, a town on the tip of Manhattan Island within the Dutch colony of New Netherland, saw a sudden influx of African slave labor in 1655. The Dutch had been involved with the African ...

May 17, 2024 Lauren Comiteau Art from Patricia Kaersenhout and Leonard Harmon's "A Phantasmagorical Manhatta Island." Photo: Lauren Comiteau While for many, 400 years of connection between Old ...

As the colony grew and commerce expanded ... and architecture of Dutch New Amsterdam.” The name of the borough comes from the ...

In this image, the Dutch sailors, who have captured the blacks from a Spanish ship, are negotiating a trade with the Jamestown settlers for food. No record of the ship's name was made at the time.

1631 - Dutch build a fort on the island, which is useful stopover between their colonies of New Amsterdam (New York ... become part of the Dutch colony of Curaçao and dependencies.

The European settlement of what would become New York was led by the Dutch, settling along the Hudson River in 1624. They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan.

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema ... wing mayor at odds with centre-right Dutch caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte, who is currently in talks to form a new government. Mr Rutte rejected calls ...

“My family, my parents, my ancestors, all come from Suriname in South America, a former Dutch colony,” she ... with Black ...