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The Dutch in Brazil: How a Colony of Sugar and Slavery Was Lost
In the early 17th century, the Dutch West India Company seized a chunk of northeastern Brazil from the Portuguese, aiming to control the world's sugar supply. For two decades, Dutch Brazil — New Holland — thrived under the governorship of Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, a prince who brought religious tolerance, urban planning, and scientific inquiry to Recife. But the colony was never secure. This episode dives into the brutal sugar economy that depended on enslaved Africans, the political tensions between Dutch Calvinists and Portuguese Catholics, and the 1645 uprising of Portuguese…
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