The Dutch in Brazil: Sugar, Slavery, and a Lost Colony

Long before the Dutch lost New Netherland, they had another American colony: Brazil. In 1630, the West India Company captured Recife and Olinda, building a sugar empire in the Northeast. Under Governor Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, Dutch Brazil became a laboratory of tolerance, art, and natural science—but also a brutal slave society. This episode traces the rise and fall of New Holland (1630–1654), the sugar engenhos, the artists Frans Post and Albert Eckhout, and the legacy of a colony that shaped the Atlantic world. We explore how Portuguese resistance, Dutch company politics, and the African slave trade intertwined. Featuring the Jewish planters from Holland, the siege of Recife, and the Treaty of The Hague. A forgotten chapter of the Golden Age. #DutchBrazil #JohanMaurits #SugarTrade #WestIndiaCompany #Recife #Olinda #Mauritsstad #FransPost #AlbertEckhout #Engenho #SlaveTrade #Portuguese #NewHolland #SeventeenthCentury #DutchHistory #AtlanticWorld #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo