History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0311 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dutch Tolerance and Its Limits
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The idea
New Netherland embraced a degree of religious tolerance, welcoming Protestants from Germany, Sweden, Denmark and England, and from the sixteen fifties permitting Jewish residents.
In practice
An observer claiming eighteen different languages could be heard on the streets of New Amsterdam.
Where people slip
The same company brought about four hundred fifty enslaved Africans and had captured Elmina in sixteen thirty-seven.
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