#Anna Bogardus

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March 31, 1647 1st Africans were baptized in NYC

1639 Manatus Map showing the location of Blacks that worked for the Dutch West India Company and the church in the Fort. The location of the Blacks on this map may have been temporary. Some 30 Blacks owned land or worked for private individuals and lived closer to the town. An early settlement of free, slave, and half-free Blacks lived around today’s Minetta Lane and Washington Square Park. On…

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March 31, 1647 1st Africans were baptized in NYC

1639 Manatus Map showing the location of Blacks that worked for the Dutch West India Company and the church in the Fort. The location of the Blacks on this map may have been temporary. Some 30 Blacks owned land or worked for private individuals and lived closer to the town. An early settlement of free, slave, and half-free Blacks lived around today’s Minetta Lane and Washington Square Park. On…

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March 31, 1647 1st Africans were baptized in NYC

1639 Manatus Map showing the location of Blacks that worked for the Dutch West India Company and the church in the Fort. The location of the Blacks on this map may have been temporary. Some 30 Blacks owned land or worked for private individuals and lived closer to the town. An early settlement of free, slave, and half-free Blacks lived around today’s Minetta Lane and Washington Square Park. On…

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March 31, 1647 1st Africans were baptized in NYC

1639 Manatus Map showing the location of Blacks that worked for the Dutch West India Company and the church in the Fort. The location of the Blacks on this map may have been temporary. Some 30 Blacks owned land or worked for private individuals and lived closer to the town. An early settlement of free, slave, and half-free Blacks lived around today’s Minetta Lane and Washington Square Park. On…

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May 5, 1641 1st African wedding in New Amsterdam

May 5, 1641 1st African wedding in New Amsterdam

Many of the early Black residents in New Amsterdam came from the Kingdom of the Kongo. It was a Christian country that built The Cathedral of the Holy Saviour of Kongo, Zaire, Angola, on May 6 – July 6, 1491. That year, King Nzinga had converted to Christianity and urged the Kongo nobility and peasant classes to follow suit. To varying degrees, the Kongo kingdom remained Christian for the next…

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May 5, 1641 1st African wedding in New Amsterdam

May 5, 1641 1st African wedding in New Amsterdam

Many of the early Black residents in New Amsterdam came from the Kingdom of the Kongo. It was a Christian country that built The Cathedral of the Holy Saviour of Kongo, Zaire, Angola, on May 6 – July 6, 1491. That year, King Nzinga had converted to Christianity and urged the Kongo nobility and peasant classes to follow suit. To varying degrees, the Kongo kingdom remained Christian for the next…

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March 31, 1647 Adam and Eva Neger were baptized into the Dutch church of New Amsterdam

March 31, 1647 Adam and Eva Neger were baptized into the Dutch church of New Amsterdam

1639 Manatus Map showing the location of Blacks that worked for the Dutch West India Company and the church in the Fort. The location of the Blacks on this map may have been temporary. Some 30 Blacks owned land or worked for private individuals and lived closer to the town. An early settlement of free, slave, and half-free Blacks lived around today’s Minetta Lane and Washington Square Park. On…

[nycreligion]

March 31, 1647 Adam and Eva Neger were baptized into the Dutch church of New Amsterdam

March 31, 1647 Adam and Eva Neger were baptized into the Dutch church of New Amsterdam

1639 Manatus Map showing the location of Blacks that worked for the Dutch West India Company and the church in the Fort. The location of the Blacks on this map may have been temporary. Some 30 Blacks owned land or worked for private individuals and lived closer to the town. An early settlement of free, slave, and half-free Blacks lived around today’s Minetta Lane and Washington Square Park. On…