ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 6月26日 22時25分

The story of New York City’s beginning as a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam is one of peace and strife, promise and prosperity, enslavement and freedom. The best way to take in this history is by walking through the streets of Lower Manhattan.

In the 1600s, New Amsterdam was on what is now the southern tip of Manhattan, the current location of the financial district. Ahead of next year’s 400th anniversary of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, Russell Shorto, the historian and the author of “The Island at the Center of the World,” a book on the settlement, has put together a walking tour of often-overlooked Native American and Black sites.

Shorto writes of the area’s early beginnings: “I’ve come to see the ‘Dutch’ period as comprising three constituencies: the European settlement (which was only about half Dutch); the Native Americans, who were steadily displaced yet remained a force; and the enslaved Africans, who were brought here against their will but employed agency and ingenuity to their situation.”

Tap the link in our bio to follow the tour through Battery Park and Wall Street on up through the other original Dutch colony streets. Photos by @george_etheredge

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