On 8/18/2017 3:21 PM, raykeller wrote:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/17/ne...-slave-trader/

New York Is Named After A Horrendous Slave Trader
Thomas Phippen | 9:00 PM 08/17/2017

New York, both the city and the state, is named after the house of York and
particularly for James Stuart, then Duke of York, one of the most successful
slavers in colonial American history.

President Donald Trump wondered aloud during a raucous press conference
Tuesday whether the impulse to tear down memorials to leaders of the
Confederacy like Gen. Robert E. Lee would slip into calls to remove
monuments to America's founders, like Thomas Jefferson and George
Washington

New York was the British colonist name. Before that, it was named Nieww Amsterdam while Holland controlled it. And before that the French had named it New Angouleme.

The first peoples of New York are estimated to have arrived around 10,000 BC. The five nations of the Iroquois League were there right before colonization.