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Stuyvesant and Mayken: A closer look at slavery in New Amsterdam and its legacy at St. Mark’s Church
A portrait of Peter Stuyvesant, New Netherland's last director general, is shown next to a contemporaneous one of a young woman from Antwerp, possibly a European earl's servant. In his presentation, Professor Jaap Jacobs used the woman's image to stand in for Mayken van Angola, a slave in New Amsterdam for whom no image exists.

Stuyvesant and Mayken: A closer look at slavery in New Amsterdam and its legacy at St. Mark’s Church

August 29, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Was Peter Stuyvesant, the notorious director general of New Netherland in the mid-1600s, really the colony’s largest slave owner — or…

St. Mark’s Church, Peter Stuyvesant, slavery and ‘repairing the breach’
A statue of Peter Stuyvesant, dedicated by the Netherlands to New York City, stands in St. Mark's Church's eastern yard, gazing toward the New Netherland director-general's burial vault. (Photo by The Village Sun)

St. Mark’s Church, Peter Stuyvesant, slavery and ‘repairing the breach’

December 24, 2020

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Updated Fri., Dec. 25, 12:15 a.m.: Along with the year of the pandemic, 2020 has been a year of racial reckoning…

Preserve LES Black and Brown culture: From DeWitt Reformed Church to amphitheater
The DeWitt Reformed Church, located on the Baruch Houses grounds, is the remnant of a historic "little mission" that ministered to African slaves who worked on the plantations of Peter Stuyvesant and others on what is today the Lower East Side. (Courtesy DeWitt Reformed Church)

Preserve LES Black and Brown culture: From DeWitt Reformed Church to amphitheater

October 15, 2020

BY KEVIN HARRIS | Quick story: Slaveowners bring slaves to the Lower East Side, capture local Native Americans, force them to cut a road along…

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