Dutch New Amsterdam
New Netherland
A colony founded by the Dutch in the New World. It became New York.
Wampum
A string of purple and white beads used for trade and to show status
Mohawk
A tribe in the Iroquoi
Chattel Slavery
Absolute legal ownership of another person, including the right to buy or sell that person.
Kingdom of Kongo
African kingdom located in West central Africa in what is now the Republic of the Congo, where first 11 came from
Indentured Servitude
An agreement to exchange labor for travel expenses an/or job training for a certain amount of time
beaver pelts
Beaver skins used for trade
Peter Minuit
Dutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638)
New Amsterdam
Dutch colony, present day New York City
Henry Hudson
English navigator who discovered the Hudson River
William Kieft
Governor of New Amsterdam; started Pavonia Massacre
Munsee
Group in the Lenape
Lenape
Group of Indigenous Americans form Manahatta
Half moon
Henry Hudson's ship
North River
Hudson River
Mwene
King of the Kongo.
Mannahatta
Manhattan before it was called Manhattan
Kieft's War/Pavonia Massacre
Massacre of several Munsee people after pigs were stolen
Half-freedom
Slaves were allowed their own homes but could be called up by the DWIC
Angola
Southern Africa
Dutch West India Company
The Dutch trading company that set up the colony of New Netherland
Walloons
The French speaking people of Southern Belgium.
The $24 purchase
The purchase of Mannahatta by the Dutch
Nkisi
What the Kongo believed to have spiritual power
Duke of York
brother to King Charles II and founder of New York
company town
community whose residents rely upon one company for jobs, housing, and shopping
Peter Stuyvesant
leader of the Dutch colony New Netherland
The first eleven
the first eleven slaves brought over to the US from Africa