A Tradition to Live By: New York Religious History, 1624–1740

This content is available through online browsing (free) program dependent on page scan. Screen readers can not currently scan, so please contact JSTOR user support for access. We will provide PDF copy of your screen reader

When I came to the colony of New York, it was originally established by Peter Minu It, settled along the Haddon River in 1624, it was a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam. The Dutch dominated the area in 1664 and then surrendered to the British who renamed the New York colony. York, Duke of James in the UK. New York's colonial site is the northeastern mountains, the lowland near the border with Canada, and the Atlantic coast plain. The climate is calm, warm in summer, average in winter. It is not too hot, spring is not too cold. It is very suitable for cultivating tobacco. Your child will enjoy to play outside. New York is also suitable for hunting in certain areas.

In New York City, the history of slavery and fugitives slaves began in the early stages of colonial settlement. Under the rule of the Netherlands from 1624 to 1664, the new town of Amsterdam was a small outpost of the underwater empire spread all over the world. The Dutch dominated the Atlantic slave trade in the early 17th century, and they introduced slaves to their North American colony, New Holland. These numbers are still small, but in 1650, the number of New Holland's 500 slaves exceeded the number of Virginia and Maryland. The Dutch West India company that is managing colonies uses slave labor to build forts and other buildings and colonists use them not only at home and physical labor but also on family farms. Slavery is just roughly summarized. The slaves were prosecuted in the district court, trained among the militia, participated in the Indian war, and married in the Dutch Reformed Church.