Status Updates From New York

• Do they protect their property by staying loyal to the Crown?

• Do they protect their "inner light" by joining the rebellion?

• Do they hide the secret wampum belt, a symbol of a land that existed before either "English" or "American" was a category?

Anglicans rising!

You’re seeing the "British New York" emerge, but because of people like Dirk and Pale Feather, you know there is a layer underneath that is Indigenous and Dutch. Then, with Quash, you see the African layer being added. It’s a literal "middle ground" where these groups are forced to navigate one another.

Rutherfurd captures that transition so well…the moment the pragmatism of the Dutch merchant class meets the imperial ambition of the English.
In 1664, the English fleet arrives in the harbor, and suddenly the "scrappy trading post" atmosphere of New Amsterdam is forced to change.

Van D. and a lot of harvest… the English man from Boston, the merchant Thomas.

Poor little Pale Feather…

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