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Slave Trade and the Broadway Market (Wall Street)
Documentation of black New Yorkers in public space in the 1700s. Mentions of the slave market, and the slave revolts of 1712 and 1741. -
West India Company's laws extending protections towards the company's enslaved laborers.
Documentation of the West India Company's protection over what they referred to as "company property" in the Dutch colony. -
Part 3 (pg 13-18) of The record of municipal laws affecting the activities and movements of the black population in 18th century British New York.
Essay of the different municipal laws that have directly affected the black population in New York during18th century British control. -
Part 2 (pg 7-12) of The record of municipal laws affecting the activities and movements of the black population in 18th century British New York.
Essay of the different municipal laws that have directly affected the black population in New York during18th century British control. -
Part 1 (pg 1-6) of The record of municipal laws affecting the activities and movements of the black population in 18th century British New York.
Essay of the different municipal laws that have directly affected the black population in New York during18th century British control. -
An explanations of the 1638 Dutch law forbidding WIC slaves from personal economic gain, as well as acts of immortality in New Amsterdam.
An explanation of a 1638 municipal law of New Amsterdam that forbids West India Company slaves from trading furs, or an opportunity of economic gain. Also defines acts of immortality in 1638 New Amsterdam and the connection of black people with immortality. -
The arrival and treatment of the Dutch's West India Company's enslaved Africans.
Simon Williamson's founded research on the arrival West India Company slaves, along with examples of enslaved black people buying their freedom and white colonists being punished for interacting with a black person during the Dutch Period. -
The Duke of York Laws (1665-75). Including the 1665 English rule that no Christians can be held in slavery.
Legal history document of the Duke of Charter Laws were set in the New York colony with references to discriminatory laws against the colony's black population, such as the 1665 law of no Christians being held in slavery. -
Modern-day celebration of the Pinkster holiday by black people in Hudson Valley New York.
Photograph of a modern day celebration of the Dutch holiday, Pinkster, by black people in New York's Hudson Valley region. An example of traditional cultural assimilation as evidence of colonialism, as well as a holiday of leisure that was allowed to be celebrated by the black denizens of 17th century New Amsterdam. -
New Amsterdam highlighted within present-day Lower Manhattan.
Screenshot from the YouTube video "What's left of New Amsterdam in Lower Manhattan - 2/4" at 1:01. Uploaded by New Netherland Now. -
Painting of Dutch colonials' involvement in the African slave trade.
The first slave auction in New Amsterdam 1655. Engraving after illustration by Howard Pyle in 1895. -
"The colony of New York in 1712."
Illustrated map of of New York in 1712 showcasing the Slave Market. -
Amsterdam in New Netherland, 1653-1664.
An illustrated map depicting the growth of the New Amsterdam colony in the larger New Netherland settlement. -
New York, the English colonial city, 1730.
An illustrated map depicting the growing English colony of New York in 1730. -
Close up screenshot of The Bradford Plan: An early survey map of New York in 1730 under British control (A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey.)
Early map of British New York with translated or transformed street names from the Dutch period. -
The Bradford Plan: An early survey map of New York in 1730 under British control (A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey.)
Early survey map of British New York in 1730 with translated or transformed street names from the Dutch period, like Pearl Street (Dutch translation: Paerl Straet) becoming Queen Street. Or, an English translation of original Dutch names like Hoogh Straet translated into High Street, then called Duke Street after the Duke of York, only to be name Stone Street in 1794 for being the first street in the city paved with cobblestone.