With hopes of discovering rich gold and silver mines, a northwest passage to the continent to Asia, a cure for syphilis and other valuable products for sale in Europe they sailed into the Atlantic (Murrin, 59). ... At the same time, the Dutch claimed the Delaware, the Hudson, and the Connecticut River valleys (Murin, 53); with such strongholds, the Dutch West India Company controlled much of the slave trades in the Americas. ... They were simply considered as new settlers, who happened to be of African decent, and they worked for a period to pay for their passage to the new world. ...

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