Essay --

Systematic routine of black slaves in New Netheriands began in1626,when the first carge of 11 Africans was unloaded by the Dutch West India Company. The social club had been founded in 1621,and it operated both as commerical company and as a military institution with quasi-state-like powers.the company had originally try its colonial experiment in New Netherlands with agricultural laborers from Holland,but this plan went nowhere.Most ofthe Dutch who came to America sought to pile up money in the salaried fur trade and then hurry back to the comforts of Holland to admire their wealth.So the company increasingly turned to slaves,which it was already importing in immense numbers to its Caribbean colonies. From the 1630s to the 1650s,the WIC was unquestionably the dominant European slave trader in Africa. In 1644 alone,it bought 6900 captives on the African coast.Most of these went to the companys colonies in the West Indies,but the company withal imported slaves to New Netherlands to cut the forests.buld roads, constructs house,and grow food.It was company-owned slave ...