Land of the Blacks (Manhattan)
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title:
Land of the Blacks (Manhattan)
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The Land of the Blacks was a village settled by people of African descent north of the wall of New Amsterdam from about 1643 to 1716. It represented an economic, legal and military modus vivendi reached with the Dutch West India Company in the wake of Kieft's War. This buffer area with the native Lenape is sometimes considered the first free African settlement in North America, although the landowners had half-free status. Its name comes from descriptions in 1640s land conveyances of white-owned
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Area north of New Amsterdam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Blacks_(Manhattan)
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2024-03-09T07:18:38Z
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