Who else remembers 1970s ads for Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes? #PeterStuyvesant

Who else remembers 1970s ads for Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes? #PeterStuyvesant

Chapter 12: Confronting Peter Stuyvesant's Troubling Legacy

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New Amsterdam is coming...
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Soon-ish

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Coming up next week! Episode 4 of the New Amsterdam series, The Stuyvesant Effect, will be uploaded on YouTube on May 29, 2025, at 18:00 CET.

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#PeterStuyvesant became governor of #NieuwAmsterdam on this day in 1647; its last Dutch leader, he would surrender to the British 17 years later. Stuyvesant tried to keep Portuguese Jewish refugees out of the colony but was overruled by the Dutch West Indies Company:
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#PeterStuyvesant became governor of New Amsterdam #OnThisDay in 1647; the colony's last Dutch leader, he would surrender to the British 17 years later; he was a ruthless autocrat but managed to impose some sort of order in the unruly colony...

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#PeterStuyvesant became the 7th & last director of #NieuwNederland #OnThisDay in 1647; his authoritarian rule ended when the British took #NieuwAmsterdam without firing a shot in 1664; 300 years later, #NewYorkCity would be the largest & greatest city on earth...

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