![]() But Shorto has a more ambitious agenda: to argue for the huge debt Americans owe to the culture of Dutch Manhattan, the first place in the New World where men and women of different races and creeds lived in relative harmony. These two seminal figures receive their due here, along with a huge cast of equally fascinating characters. Most Americans know little about Dutch Manhattan beyond its first director, Peter Minuit, who made the infamous $24 deal with the Indians, and Peter Stuyvesant, the stern governor who lost the island to the English in 1664. ) brings to exuberant life the human drama behind the skimpy legend starting with the colony's founding in 1623. ![]() ![]() Drawing on 17th-century Dutch records of New Netherland and its capital, Manhattan, translated by scholar Charles Gehring only in recent decades, Shorto ( Gospel Truth ![]()
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