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Title: New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Innes, J. H. (John H.) cn
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pointed rights of the 44 NEW AMSTERDAM AND ITS PEOPLE superior race over the inferior, and the law of Destiny wliichimperatively demanded that the latter sliould be Hogged, as itwere, out of darkness into the liglit. It is only fair to say, however, that among the Dutch ofNew Netherland the slave trade cxhiljited its least repulsivefeatures. No important diflieulties occurred between theblacks and their masters in New Amsterdam, nor do theformer seem to have been often the subjects of any seriouscriminal prosecutions. Tlie negroes settled down into houseand farm servants; the relations between them and theirmasters were usually of a soinewljat patriarchal nature, manu-missions were frequent, and sincere attachment was oftenmanifested on bolli sides. It was the h3sterical English andtheir Recorder, Horsmanden, who were responsible for theghastly tragedy of the Negro Plot in the next centuiy, andfor the iiendish torture of the numerous innocent victims ofthat insane delusion. MiMi. .P/A
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^*;/^y ^p/^ rF Y- v;fi ^1U^ CHAPTER VI THE WATERSIDE. —DR. HAN.S KIERSTED.— TITE HOUSESOF CORNKUS VAN STEENWYCK AND JOHANNES NEVWS.-CAPTAIN PAULUS VANDEHGRIFT—THE STOREHOUSEOF THE WEST INDIA COMPANY. — THE WAREHOUSEOF AUGUSTYN IIEERMANS. —SECRETARY VAN TIEN-HOVEN. — THE OLD CHURCH AND PARSONAGE SOME notice should be taken of tlie buildings along the riversiiore, east of the Marckveldt, or Whitehall Street, and oftlieir occupants in the year 1055. Tliese houses fronted upunan open street, then called t Water, — the modern PearlStreet, — but upon the opposite side of the roadway was theopen shingly beach of the East River. The houses here, atthe time of our survey, stood in compact order, and wereBubstantially built, most if not all of them being of brick.Though the deeds or ground briefs for most of the parcels ofland at this locality were made from 1G45 to 1G47, it is ditli-cult to believe that they had not been in several instancesbuilt upon at an earlier period. Near

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