New Amsterdam, a town on the tip of Manhattan Island within the Dutch colony of New Netherland, saw a sudden influx of African slave labor in 1655. The Dutch had been involved with the African ...

Lauren Comiteau visited Amsterdam Museum for a new exhibition that explores this little known part of Dutch colonial history. According to legend—and a letter sent by Peter Schagen back to his ...

They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan. When the British took control of the area in 1664, they renamed it New York, and it became one of the original 13 colonies.

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema ... During this era, the Netherlands had extensive colonies in the regions now known as Indonesia, South Africa, Curaçao, New Guinea - and beyond.