Print of New Amsterdam
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.
Examples of legal discrimination and restrictions against black New Yorkers.
Essay of the different municipal laws that have directly affected the black population in New York during18th century British control.
Williamson, Simon. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection.
Image ID. 5493301. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Laws Ordinances Affecting Negroes, During the English Occupations."
Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
January 1, 1664/ January 1, 1784.
Williamson, Simon. Writer's Program (New York, NY).
Public domain.
Text, essay, document.
Internet archive.
English.
Text, essay, document.
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11928496. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b4a8fb70-8583-0133-c927-00505686a51c
New York, NY, 17th century, 18th century.
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.
Examples of legal discrimination and restrictions against black New Yorkers.
Essay of the different municipal laws that have directly affected the black population in New York during18th century British control.
Williamson, Simon. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection.
Image ID. 5493301. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Laws Ordinances Affecting Negroes, During the English Occupations."
Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
January 1, 1664/ January 1, 1784.
Williamson, Simon. Writer's Program (New York, NY).
Public domain.
Text, essay, document.
Internet archive.
English.
Text, essay, document.
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11928496. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b4a8fb70-8583-0133-c927-00505686a51c
New York, NY, 17th century, 18th century.
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.
Examples of legal discrimination and restrictions against black New Yorkers.
Essay of the different municipal laws that have directly affected the black population in New York during18th century British control.
Williamson, Simon. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection.
Image ID. 5493301. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Laws Ordinances Affecting Negroes, During the English Occupations."
Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
January 1, 1664/ January 1, 1784.
Williamson, Simon. Writer's Program (New York, NY).
Public domain.
Text, essay, document.
Internet archive.
English.
Text, essay, document.
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11928496. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b4a8fb70-8583-0133-c927-00505686a51c
New York, NY, 17th century, 18th century.
Slave Trade and the Broadway Market (Wall Street)
Restrictions of black life and physical movement under English rule.
Documentation of black New Yorkers in public space in the 1700s. Mentions of the slave market, and the slave revolts of 1712 and 1741.
Young, Wilbur. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection.
Image ID. 5493295. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "The Broadway Market."
Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
January 1, 1700/ January 1, 1750
Young, Wilbur. Writer's Program (New York, NY).
Public domain.
Text, essay, document.
Internet archive.
English.
Text, essay, document.
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11928496. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7beb5a70-8583-0133-d5af-00505686a51c#/?uuid=7c6a7b70-8583-0133-bc38-00505686a51c
New York, NY, 18th century.
"Land Patents: New York Colonial Manuscripts." Documentation of land lot grants to Black denizens, including ex-company slaves.
Land grants were given to former African slaves that petitioned for their freedom, pointing to their years of service to the West India Company.
Land lots granted by the Director Genera of New Amsterdaml to various people, including Africans as well as those previously enslaved in the 1660s.
Gehring, Charles T., The Holland Society of New York.
Gehring, Charles T. New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Volumes GG, HH, and II, "Land Papers."
The Holland Society of New York, and The Baltimore Geneological Publishing Co., Inc.
January 1, 1630/ January 1, 1665
Gehring, Charles T., The Holland Society of New York, The New Netherland Institute.
Public domain.
Text, document, land patent records.
Online volume.
English.
Text, document.
Volume GG 80, 117, 125, and 169. PDF page no. 36-48. https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/research/online-publications/land-papers-volumes-gg-hh-and-ii/
New York, NY, 17th century.
The Dutch Church of early 17th century New Amsterdam and its stance on Black New Yorkers being Christians.
The position of religion in New Amsterdam clashing with the presence of slavery.
A collection of excerpts pertaining to slavery in the Dutch Period and the Church's stance towards converting black people, freed or enslaved, into Christians. As well as the moral clashing of the Church with the presence of slavery.
Curtwright, Wesley. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection.
Image ID. 5391801. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Position of Church Toward Slavery in Early Dutch Period." https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0a6475e0-6478-0133-efc0-00505686d14e#/?uuid=0a9a8380-6478-0133-9043-00505686d14e
Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
January 1, 1609/ January 1, 1665.
Curtwright, Wesley. Writer's Program (New York, NY).
Public domain.
Text, essay.
Internet archive.
English.
Text, essay, document.
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11928496. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
New York, NY, 17th century.
1651 Depiction of Fort Amsterdam and the surrounding New Amsterdam colony along with European ships and the indigenous people of the region.
Visual description of Fort Amsterdam and the surrounding colony in 1651.
A 1651 Illustration of possible depiction of Fort Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan along with the surrounding colony, European ships, and indigenous peoples in the foreground.
J. Hartgers, boeck-verkooper. Beschrijvinghe van Virginia, Nieuw Nederlandt, Nieuw Engelandt, en d'eylanden Bermudes, Berbados, en S. Christoffel Collection.
Image ID: ps_rbk_510. Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library.
Beschrijvinghe van Virginia, Nieuw Nederlandt, Nieuw Engelandt, en d'eylanden Bermudes, Berbados, en S. Christoffel Collection, Rare Book Division, the New York Public Library, Digital Collections.
January 1, 1651/ January 1, 1652
J. Hartgers, boeck-verkooper. Beschrijvinghe van Virginia, Nieuw Nederlandt, Nieuw Engelandt, en d'eylanden Bermudes, Berbados, en S. Christoffel Collection, Rare Book Division, the New York Public Library.
Undetermined by the NYPL.
Print, illustration.
Still image.
Dutch.
Still image.
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14310103. Beschrijvinghe van Virginia, Nieuw Nederlandt, Nieuw Engelandt, en d'eylanden Bermudes, Berbados, en S. Christoffel Collection, Rare Book Division, New York Public Library. T'Fort Nieuw Amsterdam op de Manhatans https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ca09b1d-1e92-b5ce-e040-e00a180668ec
New York, NY, 17th century.
Modern-day celebration of the Pinkster holiday by black people in Hudson Valley New York.
The Dutch holiday that was brought to the colony of New Amsterdam and was transformed over time into a celebration and leisure day for the colony's African slaves
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.
The Historic Hudson Valley website.
Borrowed from The Historic Hudson Valley website.
The Historic Hudson Valley website. "What is Pinkster?"
May 9, 2018.
The Historic Hudson Valley Organization.
N/A
Photograph
Online image.
English.
Online image.
Historica Hudson Valley. https://hudsonvalley.org/article/what-is-pinkster/
New York, NY, 21st century.
A description of all black denizens of the New Netherland settlement celebrating the Pinkster holiday.
An example of cultural assimilation between the colony's black denizens and the Dutch municipality and the white colonists .
An essay description of black people, enslaved or otherwise, participating in the Dutch holiday of celebratory dance and leisure.
Curtwright, Wesley. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection.
Image ID. 5493239. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Account of Negroes on the Pinkster Dutch Holiday." https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ff3ff100-818b-0133-91e5-00505686d14e
Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
January 1, 1620/ January 1, 1665.
Curtwright, Wesley. Writer's Program (New York, NY).
Public domain.
Text, essay.
Internet archive.
English.
Text, essay, document.
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11928496. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ff3ff100-818b-0133-91e5-00505686d14e
New York, NY, 17th century.