[PEN-L:2930] Re: selling Manhattan

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:44 AM 2/5/99 -0800, Michael wrote:
>Barkley know[s] better.  The Dutch did not BUY Manhattan since the indigenous
>people had no conception [of] private proerty.  They gave beads and the
people
>let them stay there and use the land.  Only later did they declare it to
>be private property.

also, didn't the Dutch have military superiority at the time, so as to make
sure that they got a good deal and that they could interpret the deal the
way they wanted?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html