Do you have Dutch Ancestry? If so, you may enjoy the nonfiction book "The Island at the Center of the World: the epic story of Dutch Manhattan and the forgotten colony that shaped America." It tells of New York as a Dutch Colony in the 1600s, information which was largely forgotten when New York (once called New Amsterdam) was taken over by the British in 1664. Author Russell Shorto tells us about the early leaders of the colony, a progressive young lawyer named Adriaen Van der donck and the authoritarian governor of the Dutch Colony, Peter Stuyvesant.
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