Liberals still haven't awakened from the dream of American unity — but the Puritans and their followers knew better ...

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 ...

The Dutch were cultivating it in their New Netherland colony by 1655, and in 1685 William Penn included it in a list of crops that could grow in Pennsylvanian, in an ad for his new colony.

Dutch traders and British ships dominated ... while indentured servitude was common in both the southern and New England colonies. As the colonies grew, tensions with the British government ...