Vol. 32, No. 1 “De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius” Mar. 2016 Events of Interest accepted, The panel will consist of empire was forged on the battle- the following speakers: Stephen field, as Dutch armies and fleets Until June 5, 2016. “Van Dyck: Staggs, Nicholas Cunigan, and Erin extended the decades-old The Anatomy of Portraiture.” The Kramer. The session will be independence war against Spain most comprehensive exhibition on moderated by Danny Noorlander across the ocean. Anton van Dyck as a portraitist to with comments offered by Mark The Dutch Moment is the first be shown in the United States in Meuwese. In a separate panel book to cover this empire in all its over twenty years. Anton van Dyck Dennis Maika will present his own complexity, and is original in its (1599-1641), one of the most new scholarly work: “The Struggle focus on soldiers and sailors, the celebrated and influential for New Amsterdam’s Slave Trade: emphasis on violence as instru- portraitists of all time, enjoyed an A Contest Between Regional mental in the creation and international career that took him Market Opportunities, West India maintenance of the Dutch Atlantic, from his native Flanders to Italy, Company Policy, and Private and its treatment of the Dutch France, and, ultimately, the court of Entrepreneurship.” For more Atlantic as both an empire and a Charles I in London. For more information go to: oieahc. realm in which the Dutch routinely information go to: www.frick.org/ wm.edu/conferences. crossed imperial boundaries. exhibitions. The pivotal colony in the Dutch *** Publications Atlantic was Brazil, half of which was conquered by the Dutch West June 23-26, 2016. The 22nd annual Both of the following books will be India Company. Its brief lifespan Omohundro Institute Conference hot-off-the-press and available for notwithstanding, Dutch Brazil had a will convene in Worcester, MA. purchase at our annual Seminar in lasting impact on the Atlantic Hosted by Worcester Polytechnic September: world. Brazil launched the Dutch Institute and the American The Dutch Moment in Atlantic into the transatlantic slave trade, a Antiquarian Society, the History: War, Trade, and business they soon dominated, and conference’s twin themes will be Settlement in the Seventeenth- also paved the way for a Jewish life “Native American Transforma- Century Atlantic World by Wim in freedom in the Americas. In the tions” and “Early America at Klooster (Cornell University Press, end, the entire colony eventually Work.” Although no specific September 2016). reverted to Portuguese rule, in part program material is yet available, In the 17th century, the Dutch because Dutch soldiers, plagued by we do know the following: a panel built an Atlantic empire that perennial poverty, famine, and proposal entitled: “Transforming stretched from the United Provinces misery, refused to take up arms. As the Eastern Wood- lands: to the Hudson River and Brazil and elsewhere, the Dutch lost a crucial Native-European Encounters in the from the Caribbean to Angola and colony because of the systematic Dutch Colony of New Netherland,” the African Gold Coast. This by our Emerging Scholars, has been New Netherland Institute, Box 2536, Empire State Plaza Station, Albany, NY 12220 Voice: 518–486–4815 | Fax: 518–473–0472 [email protected] | www.newnetherlandinstitute.org De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 2 neglect of the very soldiers upon While the earliest historians America (1614-1676) is presented. whom the empire’s defenses rested. working on slave culture in a North Reports are both published on the *** American context were mainly NHF-website: http://bit.ly/22nugaK interested in an assumed process of The Pinkster King and the King of assimilation according to European NNI News Kongo: The Forgotten History of standards, later generations pointed America’s Dutch-Owned Slaves, by out the need to look for indigenous Annual Meeting and Luncheon: Jeroen Dewulf. (University of African continuities. The findings Sat. May 21st 10:00 am–3:00 pm Mississippi Press, September 2016). of this book suggest the necessity to First Presbyterian Church, 34 This book presents the history complement the latter with an Broadway, Rensselaer, NY 12144. of the nation’s forgotten Dutch increased focus on the contact The meeting, luncheon, and talk slave community and free Dutch- Africans had with European— will take place in the church speaking African-Americans from primarily Portuguese—culture followed by an opportunity to visit 17th-century New Amsterdam to before they were shipped as slaves the “Slavery Exhibit” (see last issue 19th-century New York and New to the Americas. of Marcurius) at Crailo Historic Jersey. It also develops a Site, which is just a block from the provocative new interpretation of News church. The business meeting will one of America’s most intriguing include introduction of new board black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. From the “New Holland Founda- members, an update from the NYS Dewulf rejects the traditional tion Newsletter” December 2015: Archives on the digitization project, interpretation of this celebration of For the “Forts Project,” where the and an update from the NNRC a “slave king” as a form of carnival. aim is an overview of all Dutch director. The featured speaker at Instead, he shows that it is a ritual fortifications worldwide, researcher this year’s meeting will be Susanah rooted in mutual-aid and slave Lodewijk Hulsman finished his Shaw Romney, author of New brotherhood traditions. By placing report on Brazil this year. In Dutch Netherland Connections: Intimate Pinkster in an Atlantic context, archives he traced forgotten Networks and Atlantic Ties in Dewulf identifies striking parallels documents and maps concerning the 17th-Century America, the 2013 to royal election rituals in slave building methods and backgrounds Hendricks Award winner. The title communities elsewhere in the of the former engineers of these of her talk will be “Housewives and Americas, which he relates to the military works in the Tropics. For Businesswomen: Changing how we ancient Kingdom of Kongo and the the North American part of the think about Dutch women in the historical impact of Portuguese ‘Forts Project’ historian Jaap Jacobs Atlantic World.” culture in West-Central Africa. finished his research on Dutch *** Whereas the importance of fortifications, as part of the Atlas of African-American fraternities Dutch North America. In “Pavonia aka New Jersey et al. A providing mutual-aid has long been cooperation with the New Historical Perspective” (working acknowledged for the post-slavery Netherland Institute, Jacobs did title) is the theme of the 39th New era, Dewulf’s focus on the social thorough work in archives in the Netherland Seminar. The seminar capital of slaves traces concern for Netherlands and the U.S.A., where will include three parts: two mutual-aid back to 17th-century he found new and useful inform- relating to NJ's colonial and state Manhattan. He suggests a stronger ation for future archaeological history, the third relating to New impact of Manhattan’s first slave research and conservation. The two Netherland in general. The Seminar community on the development of reports have become greatly will be held at the New Brunswick African-American identity in New informative and for the first time an Theological Seminary, New York and New Jersey than has overview of the Dutch fortifications Brunswick, NJ. The seminar and its hitherto been assumed. in Brazil (c. 1585-1654) and North companion events will take place De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 3 over three days, beginning on research, teaching, writing, documents collection at the UC Thursday, the 22nd of September speaking, or in other ways. For Berkeley Bancroft Library is an and concluding on Saturday the more information: bit.ly/1Vfv8IX accumulation of research notes and 24th. In addition to the two-day *** transcriptions of historical conference, there will be a documents from archives through- Five episodes of our podcast “New reception Thursday evening and the out Europe and Latin America, Netherland Praatjes,” hosted by New Netherland dinner on Friday made between approximately Russell Shorto are now available on evening. Relevant tours are being 1930-2001 by Engel Sluiter, former our site: Charles Gehring, James planned. Professor of History at the Univer- Bradley, Len Tantillo, Susanah sity of California, Berkeley and *** Romney, and Jeroen Dewulf. Four Dutch native. The collection more have been recorded, with The NNI Nominating Committee is consists of 98 boxes of these notes three of them edited and in line for looking for members who may be and transcriptions, estimated in posting: Janny Venema, Dennis interested in serving on the Board excess of 160,000 pages, including Maika, Paul Huey, and Firth of Trustees. In particular the photocopies of documents and other Fabend. Go to: bit.ly/1Xxzmuj Institute could use members that written works. While the collection have knowledge and expertise in *** is summarized as relating to law and/or public relations, though NNRC Student Scholar in Resi- “17th-century Dutch Iberian global there are no prerequisites. Board dence Research Grant: Applica- rivalry,” subjects range from Dutch, meetings are held four times per tions are due May 15, 2016. English, French, Spanish, and year, with most meetings taking The New Netherland Research Portuguese voyages to the place in Albany, New York. The Center (NNRC), a joint endeavor of Americas, imperial finances NNI currently has Board members the New Netherland Institute (NNI) between the later 16th- and first from as far away as Delaware, and the Office of Cultural Educa- half of the 17th-centuries, Dutch Virginia, and Illinois! tion, New York State Education voyages during the early 17th Please consider lending your Department (NYSED/OCE), with century, shipping records, the time and talent to our worthy financial support from the Govern- Dutch presence in North America, organization by serving as a ment of the Netherlands, announces the Caribbean and Brazil, the Trustee.