Maria d'Angola

possible marriage in Dutch Reformed Church

1654 01 Feb; Anthony Mattheuszen; Maria Anthony, Negres
Slaves had many names assigned to them. I do not have total conviction about this reference {~• MMvB}

other notes

• see Isaac Newton Phelps-Stokes' Iconography :Original Grants and Farms page 75 (B)

She was married to the freed slave : "Gratia d'Angola"

"Well aware of the unpredictability that shadowed the lives of non-Europeans in the Dutch city, free Africans attempted to safeguard their children through labor contracts, such as the one made by Maria Portugies for her daughter to be a household servant, and apprenticeships. Susanna Anthony Roberts, a free African acting as guardian of her minor brother, negotiated an apprenticeship agreement for him that mandated that he be taught reading and writing. Unable to write herself, she yearned to equip her brother with the tools of literacy."
from: http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/new-york/