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The Manhattan “Purchase” Swindle

“Purchase of Manhattan Island 1626 — colored engraving, 19th Century” . Costello plan of New Amsterdam in 1626 — officially entitled “Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt” (The key to the Castello plan lists every single house and the 1500 inhabitants that formed the first community in the Dutch colony). “New York before … Continue reading


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