The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...
New Amsterdam, a town on the tip of Manhattan Island within the Dutch colony of New Netherland, saw a sudden influx of African slave labor in 1655. The Dutch had been involved with the African ...
The Dutch purchased Manhattan Island and founded New Amsterdam as the capital of their colony of New Netherland. Their claim extended up the Hudson River and into Connecticut. Later, they added to it ...
This much-needed antidote will be indispensable to historians of slavery and Dutch New York alike.' Jaap Jacobs - author of The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century ...
Ecologists in Netherlands were startled to find the creepy colony at the bottom of a canal. The phenomenon does not normally occur in Netherlands, local ecologist Anne Nijs told local outlet AD.