At one point, Jews controlled about 17 percent of the Caribbean trade in Dutch colonies, Drescher said. Jews were so influential in those colonies that slave auctions scheduled to take place on ...

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 foundation Israel Heartland offers to use the money raised from Dutch and other European donors to subsidize ...

Colonies faced periods of inflation and excessive ... place before the mid-17th century was controlled by the Spanish and Dutch, including that to and from England. That lasted until the British ...