The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrec

"The Dutch colony of New Netherland in the seventeenth century enjoyed a greater diversity of religious beliefs than any of the English colonies in America at t

This authoritative history of religion in colonial New Netherland explores the complex and often conflicting religious landscape of this period. Zwierlein analy