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 purchased Manhattan Island and founded New Amsterdam as the capital of their colony of New Netherland. Their claim extended up the Hudson River and into Connecticut. Later, they added to it ...

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.