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When I was appointed in 2007 as the successor to Johan Snapper as incumbent of the Queen Beatrix Chair in Dutch Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, there was much to look forward to. I would be leading one the most prestigious Dutch Studies programs outside of the Low Countries, joining a world-renowned research university, and moving to the golden San Francisco Bay Area. The one thing I regretted was that the expertise in Portuguese Studies I had acquired after several years of study and academic work in Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-speaking Africa seemed of little use to my new position. While my research at Berkeley focused first on World War II following my discovery of a unique collection of Dutch clandestine materials in the Bancroft Library, the creation of a new course in 2011 made me shift the focus of my research. This new course on New Netherland and the little-known Dutch chapter in American history was conceived as an American Cultures course. Since American Cultures courses must consider three major ethnic groups, preparations involved the study of the relationship between the early Dutch settlers in seventeenth-century Manhattan and the Native American populations as well as the enslaved Africans. The moment I looked at the first document mentioning the names of these Africans, I realized that the Lusophone world had reentered my life. I dedicate this book to Sebastião, Cecília, Manuel, Bárbara, Isabel, António, Fernando, Luís, Maria, and all other members of Manhattan’s charter generation.
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