Image Title:
The first slave auction in New Amsterdam in 1655

Note:
"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 slave trade for some time, having seized Portugal's Elmina Castle along the West African coast about two decades earlier." Read More

Artist:
Howard Pyle

Image Source:
Wikipedia

Subject:
Slavery - Market - Sale - New York - New Amsterdam - Manhattan Island - West African

Date:
1655

Rights:
Public Domain

Image:
SA-SLAVMKT-23

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