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Bound, Freed, and Burdened: Mayken van Angola’s Journey to Liberation in Early Dutch America
16 December 2024
On 28 December 1662, Mayken van Angola, alongside Susanna and Lucretia, boldly petitioned for freedom in New Amsterdam. Their request was granted—but with a condition: they must clean Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant’s house weekly. Mayken’s story, rooted in the realities of enslavement and
Mass Murder On Manhattan: The Bloody Legacy Of Dutch Settlers
22 February 2024
Settler colonialism is not a story of friendly relations throughout. The confrontation with an unfamiliar other creates wariness and suspicion and often leads to violent outbursts in which non-combatants become innocent victims. The story of Manhattan in the seventeenth century was no exception, as
Sojourner Truth: How the Enslaved Woman of a Dutch-New York Family Became an Icon of America’s Black Liberation Movement
27 November 2023
On 31 March 1817, the New York legislature decided that enslavement within its borders had to come to an end. Final emancipation would occur on 4 July 1827. Coincidentally, the date of choice was almost exactly two centuries after the Dutch West India Company’s yacht Bruynvisch arrived at Manhatta
How Peter Stuyvesant Became an Anachronistic Symbol of Dutch-American Friendship
15 November 2023
The bonds that connect the American and Dutch peoples have been commemorated in various ways and at various levels. Dutch-American Friendship Day is a well-established annual event at the governmental level. In New York City, the historical memory of Petrus Stuyvesant has recently become controversi