New Amsterdam
American History Hit
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New Netherlands and the Colony
The Dutch bought Manhattan from the Native Americans in 1626 for $24. Peter Stuyvesant, the longest serving director of the colony, famously tried to block Jews from settling and other groups too. "Whenever things were relatively good, they could feel more open ... but when there was a greater sense of danger, then they would tend to keep out foreigners," he says.
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