West India Company's laws extending protections towards the company's enslaved laborers.
Item
Dublin Core
Title
West India Company's laws extending protections towards the company's enslaved laborers.
Subject
The West India Company's rules regarding enslaved persons.
Description
Documentation of the West India Company's protection over what they referred to as "company property" in the Dutch colony.
Creator
Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection.
Source
Image ID. 5493265. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Protection of the Slaves."
Publisher
Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
Date
January 1, 1626/ January 1, 1664
Contributor
Writer's Program (New York, NY).
Rights
Public domain.
Relation
Text, essay, document.
Format
Internet archive.
Language
English.
Type
Text, essay, document.
Identifier
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/62748a00-8582-0133-fc24-00505686a51c
Coverage
New York, NY. 18th century.
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
Slavery under Dutch rule in New York.
Original Format
Paper.
Collection
Citation
Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection., “West India Company's laws extending protections towards the company's enslaved laborers.,” Silences of New York History, accessed April 19, 2024, https://silencesofnyhistory.org/items/show/152.