An explanations of the 1638 Dutch law forbidding WIC slaves from personal economic gain, as well as acts of immortality in New Amsterdam.
Item
Dublin Core
Title
An explanations of the 1638 Dutch law forbidding WIC slaves from personal economic gain, as well as acts of immortality in New Amsterdam.
Subject
Municipal law forbidding West India Company slaves of other economic opportunities, as well as examples of immorality in the view of 1638 New Amsterdam.
Description
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.
Creator
Williamson, Simon. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection.
Source
Image ID. 5431205. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Explanation of the Ordinance of April 15th, 1638."
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
April 15,1638.
Contributor
Williamson, Simon. Writer's Program (New York, NY).
Rights
Public domain.
Relation
Text, essay.
Format
Internet archive.
Language
English.
Type
Text, essays.
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/45efa110-710c-0133-cfbf-00505686a51c
Coverage
New York, NY, 17th century.
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
An essay analysis of an ordinance during the Dutch colonial period.
Original Format
Paper.
Collection
Citation
Williamson, Simon. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection., “An explanations of the 1638 Dutch law forbidding WIC slaves from personal economic gain, as well as acts of immortality in New Amsterdam.,” Silences of New York History, accessed April 25, 2024, https://silencesofnyhistory.org/items/show/52.