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Pieter Schagen
Letter That Recorded 'Sale' of Manhattan for $24 on View at New-York Historical Society
March 19, 2024
A nearly 400-year-old letter that documents the mythologized 'purchase' of the island of Manhattan from the Indigenous peoples who inhabited it is on view now through July 14, at the
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