Early and Colonial Years

The story of Brooklyn started long before Columbus departed to the New World. Brooklyn was located at the southern end of Long Island and lived a group of American Indians named "Indians" who originally called themselves "Renape". They include Nayack and Canarsee which grow corn, tobacco and fish in the river.

The Dutch settled in Manhattan in the early 17th century and called their neighbors "Indian of the River" or "Wild People". They began to buy land across the river in 1636, and their destiny was often sharply contrasted with the land of American Indians. Due to illnesses like smallpox, these diseases are new to the United States; wars; land transactions are not always glory; like other factors, by the 1680's indigenous people are required to comply with all requirements for the forest landscape of the forest I lost.

The Netherlands established five villages: Bushwick, Brooklyn, Flat Bush, Flatlands, New Utrecht. Gravesend is the sixth village founded in 1643 by the British lady Deborah Moody. In 1674, British occupied the territory of the Netherlands and gathered six villages in King County, part of the New York crown colony.

In the census of 1698, 2,017 people in King County were counted. About half of these early settlers were Dutch. Others come from Germany, England, France and Scandinavia, including numerous black slaves brought from Africa. In the 18th century, slavery flourished in these rich fields. By 1771, just before the Revolutionary War slavery accounted for nearly one - third of King County 's population. By 1827, slavery did not become illegal in New York State.

During the revolution, the British army almost destroyed the shallow army of George Washington 's experience in Brooklyn' s 1776 battle. The battle ranged from Gravesend to Gowanus, and the colonial army slid across East River's Manhattan on a foggy night and almost escaped destruction. During the war, the UK occupied Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Slavery is legal and practiced at different times in all European colonies. Not all Africans coming to the United States are slaves; even those who act as freelancers in the 17th century, the crew work on board. In the early days of the colonial era, like many immigrants from the British Isles, some Africans seemed to be the servants of the contract. These servants were free after the completion of the contract and were eligible to serve as chiefs of the new colony lands in the Chesapeake Bay area where employees were more common. As early as 1619, there were free black categories in North America.

Early in the colonial era, most of the workers were poor contract servants from the UK. In fact, in the century of Virginia, 100 thousand Britons across the Atlantic were contracted servants. The condition of slavery is tragic, nearly two-thirds have died before the end of the contract period. Decades later, African slaves began arriving in America and worked alongside the contract's servants. Many people play together, marry and run away together. Ethnic divisions are mobile and slavery is not incorporated into the law

In the early days of the colonial era, the servants of the European and African generals believed in their common interests. They all saw they were being used by landlords. This tension caused the first revolt in the American colony, the bacon rebellion. In 1676 in the colony of Virginia state, black and white contract employees against the ruling class came up. With the bacon rebellion, other rebels caused concern among landlords. In these early colonial times, the ruling class united the Europeans and created white privileges and whiteness. European landlords have created a white concept that poor, working class white men of society divide and conquer people other than white people. Of course, poor white people still have no land or political power, but now they have a sense of privilege and control.