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1624: The Dutch West India Company establishes New Amsterdam, a colony of 30 families on the tip of present-day Manhattan Island, New York City.
The Dutch governor, Peter Stuyvesant, didn't want them but was overruled by the Dutch West India Company after Jews in Holland protested.
23) For Blacks not obligated to the Dutch West India Company (a point addressed below), "they had land that spread from Astor Place to Prince Street, and on the earliest Dutch maps that land is referred to as 'Free Negro Lots'.
 
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