The Importance Of Connections

People take for granted the amount of connections they make in life. Whether be it in high school or college, many connections are made on a day to day basis. People look at a family whether they are poor or rich, and you can always see that family connection. The world thrives off of day to day connections. Connections that either drive the local business to even the large corporate company who trades and connects with the rest of the world.
New Netherland was a town on the vanguard for people using connections to build companies as well as the small seedy underbelly of economic growth in our country. Women were enlarge an important part of the way that connections were used and built. In Amsterdam women were able to run their own business, and able to control the estate of a close family member, distant family member, or a close and trusted collogue. Not all women of the day were as lucky as to have wealth or a title to propel them to the forefront of the business aspect of life, a lot women were poor, or what business they did own would generally be a tavern or brothel. According to “A New Netherland Connection” women would also work in taverns or brothels just to make ends meet. Taverns and brothels may not have been sought after as an ideal place of employment, but most were left with no choice in most …show more content…
African slaves were a large part of what was used to develop the country. Many of the African slaves were given their freedom by the Company but also were asked to stay on and work in the fields or around town still doing their jobs. Many Africans did work as well as have families and small communities of their own. This would eventually lead up with the English taking control of the colonies and changing the lives of many people as well as the connections that were formed from