Posted on 06/18/2020 4:10:34 PM PDT by rxsid
New York was named after the Duke of York. The Duke of York, King James II, was a prominent slave trader. When will New York (& New York City) be renamed due to it's name being prominently connected to a major slave trader?
"...James Stuart, who later became King James II, was the original governor of the Royal Africa Company and its largest shareholder. Therefore anything named for the Duke of York is, like Penny Lane, tainted by the history of the slave trade. By this logic, we must rename New York."
https://spectator.org/yesterday-came-suddenly/
"Island New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam),[53] after the capital city of the Netherlands, which was to become present-day New York. The English took over the colony in 1664 during the second Anglo-Dutch War. They changed the name to New York, to honor the Duke of York, who later became King James II of England and James VII of Scotland. The Dutch surrendered Nieuw Amsterdam without fighting."
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698.
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/groups-organizations-global-african-history/royal-african-company-2/
"Led by the king’s younger brother James, the Duke of York (later King James II), this group had a monopoly on British trade with West Africa, including gold, silver and slaves."
https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-royal-african-company
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Oh, and colonization?<
Same thing.
No one would care. Now, force the name change of the NY Yankees and see what happens.
Rat Town
“Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can’t say
People just liked it better that way”
The Dutch held most of the coastal areas of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and Delaware (known as New Netherland) in the early colonial period.
Being more intent on trade rather than colonisation of land area they kept their posts small and coastal. The town of New Amsterdam was the biggest on the north American continent because of the size of the bay.
The English took New Amsterdam in an invasion in 1664 led by the Duke of York at the request of King Charles II.
The Dutch retook New Amsterdam in the Third Dutch-Anglo war in 1673 but gave it up by treaty in 1674. The Dutch thought keeping Suriname was a better deal. Boy were they wrong!
Anyway, the English renamed New Amsterdam to New York for the Duke of York, the leader of the invasion and new owner of the conquered territory.
It doesn’t stop there. The Americas were named after Amerigo Vespuci. Amerigo enslaved the indigenous people and sold them. We are going to have to tear down and rename TWO continents!
Our country will go from USA to USBLM.
New LaQuishia
They should “decolonize” their bank accounts.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks rxsid. It's satire, but hey...
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