. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. f there, andto carry slaves back in return; which privilege o^ sailing with theirown ships from New Netherland to Brazil, should be exclusively allow-ed to Patroons and Colonists* who promote the population in NewNetherland, and not to the interlopers, who only carry good to andfro, without attending to agriculture. By this means not only[would Brazil be supplied with provisions at a cheaper rate, butNew Netherland would by slave labor, be more extensively cultivatedthai it has hitherto been, because the agricultural laborers, whoare conveyed thither a
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. f there, andto carry slaves back in return; which privilege o^ sailing with theirown ships from New Netherland to Brazil, should be exclusively allow-ed to Patroons and Colonists* who promote the population in NewNetherland, and not to the interlopers, who only carry good to andfro, without attending to agriculture. By this means not only[would Brazil be supplied with provisions at a cheaper rate, butNew Netherland would by slave labor, be more extensively cultivatedthai it has hitherto been, because the agricultural laborers, whoare conveyed thither at a great expense to the Colonists, sooner orlater apply themselves to trade, and neglect agriculture , on the other hand, being brought and maintained there at acheap rate, various other descriptions of produce would be raised,and by their abundance be reduced in price, so as to allow, whenoccasion would offer, of their advantageous exportation hither andto other parts of Europe. Doc. rel. to Col. Hist, of N. Y. I, Jan, 20 1648. Resolutions of the States General on the or -ning of Trade in New Netherlands It is resolved that private inhabitants of New Uetherland xshall be allowed to export their oountry produce under suitable dutyin their own or chartered ships, to Brazil and Angola, on these fol-lowing conditions: first, that the aforesaid ships, when in Brazil,shall not be at liberty to return back with sugars to New Netherlandaforesaid, but shall let themselves be chartered directly , that the permit to proceed to Angola above mentioned,shall only be provisionally granted, and that for the time that thedispensation shall continue in regard to the exportation of Slaves,which was accorded on Thursday last. ^Holland. Doc. rel. to Col. Hist, of N. Y. I, 21r>.
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