Best Answer: The English colonies of New York and New Jersey were created from the earlier Dutch colony of New Netherlands. The settlement of New Amsterdam became New York City. The Dutch also had claims and settlements in what would become Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The southern settlements were contested by Sweden and the New England settlements by England. In the Treaty of Westminster at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, The Dutch gave up their territorial claims in continental North America to England. The Swedish attempt at colonization along the Delaware River failed when captured by the Dutch about 20 years before the Dutch were forced to give up their colonies. The Dutch colonies had been captured then returned by the English in an earlier war.
The Dutch settlements were mainly coastal, spanning from Rhode Island to Maryland. The only inland extent was up the Hudson River to about where Albany is today. Their 17th century territorial claims overlapped those of England and Sweden. The Dutch captured the Swedish colony in 1655; their colonies were later ceded to England in 1674.
Well, once the Americas were discovered and the colonist found that the soil was agreeable to grow different crops such as tobacco and cotton the colonists realized that they needed people to pick the crops. Originally indentured servants did the hard labor but then when they found that they could get labor by trading goods with African tribal leaders they resorted to importing Africans to the Americas as labor. The tribes in Africa were constantly fighting and whichever side won the losers became the slaves of the winning tribe. However, as Europeans brought valuable things to the continent of Africa such as weapons, salt, gold, and other things the leaders of the winning tribe would give their slaves to the Europeans. There were cases when Blacks captured other Blacks in Africa for the sole purpose of giving them to the European traders. Hopefully this helps. If you haven't see the movie La Amistad, it will explain in more detail what I have written. I learned a lot from that movie. I must warn you the first 5 to 10 minutes are a bit gory. I had a hard time watching that part.
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