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 ...

The Dutch purchased Manhattan Island and founded New Amsterdam as the capital of their colony of New Netherland. Their claim extended up the Hudson River and into Connecticut. Later, they added to it ...

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

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.

It is unclear whether the king was referring to the antisemitic Dutch riots that targeted Amsterdam Jews after the Nazi ...

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 ...