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This chapter explores the importance of enslaved laborers in Dutch efforts to settle the colonial space — the region they called New Netherland. It looks at the enslaved laborers' importance to the West India Company in New Netherland. The chapter argues that enslaved men and women proved crucial to the company's colonial project in New Netherland, because their presence and contributions were instrumental in company efforts to claim this space for the Dutch. The chapter also examines enslaved Africans' significance in the settling of New Netherland, discusses their contributions to the colony's development, and shows how the company implemented hierarchies of enslavement to enforce their cooperation in Dutch colonial development. |
