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  The Dutch Church of early 17th century New Amsterdam and its stance on Black New Yorkers being Christians.

  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.

  Tags black life, document, Dutch New York, New Amsterdam, New York, religion