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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. -
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. -
The New York Gazette's advertisements of runaway enslaved people and slave market schedules.
Collection of advertisements from the New York Gazette about runaway enslaved people and some that are scheduled to be sold. -
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. -
"Bill of Lading of 300 Merchantable Slaves To Be Delivered At The Manhattans, 21 July 1664." Doc. 86, pg. 198. The Curaço Papers, 1640-1665 Volume 17. Documentation of the West India Company's activities in the 17th century Caribbean islands.
Documentation of the West India Company's activities in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century as well as the importing of enslaved people to New York. -
A description of all black denizens of the New Netherland settlement celebrating the Pinkster holiday.
An essay description of black people, enslaved or otherwise, participating in the Dutch holiday of celebratory dance and leisure. -
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.