Excerpt from Historic New York: The Half Moon Papers On May 27, 1647, a committee of the States General of Holland made a full report on the affairs of the West India Company, in the course of which it mentioned the fact that, in consequence of the unsettled condition of Brazil, The Slave Trade hath long laid dor mant to the great damage of the Company. In regard to New Netherland, it said That country is considered to be the most fruitful of all within your High Mightinesses' Juris diction. The granting of Freedoms and ...
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Excerpt from Historic New York: The Half Moon Papers On May 27, 1647, a committee of the States General of Holland made a full report on the affairs of the West India Company, in the course of which it mentioned the fact that, in consequence of the unsettled condition of Brazil, The Slave Trade hath long laid dor mant to the great damage of the Company. In regard to New Netherland, it said That country is considered to be the most fruitful of all within your High Mightinesses' Juris diction. The granting of Freedoms and Privileges hath indeed induced some Pa troons and Colonists to undertake agriculture there but as the produce cannot be sold any where except in the adjacent places belonging to the English, who are themselves sufficiently supplied, those planters have not received a return for their labor and outlay. With a view, then, to give greater encouragement to agriculture, and consequently to population, we should consider it highly advantageousthat a way be opened to allow them to export their produce even to Brazil, in their own ves sels, under certain duties and to trade it off there, and to carry slaves back in return. By this means, not only would Brazil be supplied with provisions at a cheaper rate, but New Netherland would, by slave labor, be more extensively cultivated than it has hitherto been, because the agricul tural laborers, who are conveyed thither at great expense to the Colonists, sooner or later apply themselves to trade and neglect agricul ture altogether. Slaves, on the other hand, being brought and maintained there at a cheap rate, various other descriptions of produce would be raised. In accordance with this report the states-general resolved upon Feb ruary 10, 1648, that the people of New Nether land be allowed to export their fish, flour, and produce, to Brazil, in private or the Company's ships, and in re turn to export, at certain duty from Brazil, to New Netherland and not elsewhere, as much merchandise, such as Slaves. Four years later the slave trade to Africa direct was also opened, but with results so meagre that Fiscal Van Dyck wrote on September 18, 1652, No requests for Negroes has been presented from Patroons or Colonists here to my knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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