Excerpt from Scribner's Popular History of the United States, Vol. 3: From the Earliest Discoveries of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen to the Present TimeThere were slaves also in New York, but not enough to in¿uence the system of labor. As Andros said, they were but very few. Beggars there were none the poor who could not support themselves were taken care of - easily taken care of, no doubt, as there could not have been many. The manufacture of ¿our soon became an im portant industry and more than one attempt was made by legislation, which for, some years succeeded, to give a monopoly of it to the city of New York. Ministers, Andros said, were scarce, and religions manv. The Catholic Duke, his master, could tolerate all sects so long as the law of England proscribed his own.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.