Dutch New Amsterdam

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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


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