A Conversation Online with Dr. Andrea Mosterman on "Petrus Stuyvesant, the Dutch Slaver Gideon, and Expansion of Slavery and the Slave Trade in New Netherland "

Sunday, 2 May at 1pm

Please join us for ongoing conversations about slavery in Petrus Stuyvesant’s world, this Sunday, 2 May, at 1PM online with Dr. Andrea Mosterman. Dr. Jaap Jacobs will engage in the conversation and invite questions and answers. We are honored to have Drs. Mosterman and Jacobs with us.

During Petrus Stuyvesant’s tenure as governor of New Netherland, reliance on slavery and the slave trade expanded in the region. In fact, Stuyvesant eagerly awaited the arrival of the slaver the Gideon that was to bring 300 enslaved African men, women, and children to area in 1664. In this paper, I will explore some of these developments and Stuyvesant’s role in them. 

Andrea Mosterman is associate professor in Atlantic History and Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History at the University of New Orleans. In her work, she explores the multi-faceted dimensions of slavery, slave trade, and cross-cultural contact in the Dutch Atlantic and Early America with special emphasis on Early New York. She has published her work in, among others, the Journal of African History and Early American Studies, and she curated the digital exhibit “Slavery in New Netherland” for the New Netherland Institute. Her forthcoming book Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York, which is coming out this fall with Cornell Press, has won the 2020 Hendricks Award for best book-length manuscript related to New Netherland and the Dutch colonial experience.