There have been a number of articles published over the last twenty years on the relationship between the early Dutch and the African Americans in their charge. This list of articles has been abstracted from the New Netherland Project Bibliography at the following website:

http://www.nnp.org/project/bibliography.html

"Blacks in New Netherland and Colonial New York." Papers from the 6th Annual Rensselaerswijck Seminar in Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. Vol. 5, Nos. 3 and 4 (Fall and Winter 1984).

Bielinski, Stefan. "Blacks in Early New York: Finding the People." The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Vol. 5, Nos. 3 & 4 (Fall and Winter 1984).

Christoph, Peter R. "The Freedmen of New Amsterdam." The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Vol. 5, Nos. 3 & 4 (Fall and Winter 1984).

Cohen, David Steven. "In Search of Carolus Africanus Rex: Afro-Dutch Folklore in New York and New Jersey." Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Vol. 5 Nos. 3 & 4 (Fall and Winter 1984).

Davis, Thomas J. "These Enemies of Their Own Household." The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Vol. 5, Nos. 3 & 4 (Fall and Winter 1984).

Goodfriend, Joyce D. "Black Families in New Netherland." Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Vol. 5, Nos. 3 & 4 (Fall and Winter 1984).

Goodfriend, Joyce D. "Burghers and Blacks: The Evolution of a Slave Society at New Amsterdam." New York History 59 (April 1978).

Page, Willie F. "The African Slave During the Early English Period, 1664 to 1700." The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Vol. 5, Nos. 3 & 4 (Fall and Winter 1984).

Kruger, Vivienne L. "Born to Run: The Slave Family in Early New York, 1626-1827." Ph.D. Diss., Columbia University, 1985.

    For copies of these articles try NYPL Express, a service of the New York Public Library. For more information go to the following webpage:

http://www.nypl.org/research/docdelivery/DocDelivery.html

    I would like to thank the New Netherland Project and Dr. Charles Gehring for all of their help over the past several years and for their terrific resource. This is a project that deserves the support of everyone who is interested in this time period.

    Thanks,

    Chris