Africa
    Africans were present in the colony, too. Anthony Jansen van Salee was said to have been of mixed racial heritage, born in Morocco to a Dutch buccaneer and his North African concubine. He was probably Muslim, as he owned a copy of the Koran and passed it on to his descendants. Also, the Dutch brought slaves over from ports in West Africa. Some of these Africans were able to purchase a type of half-freedom, paying the West India Company an annual fee.

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