And in '' The Island at the Center of the World , '' Russell Shorto reminds us , '' Manhattan began its rise as an international port not in the 18th century , as the Port of New York , but in the 1630 's , as a cog in the circle of trade moving from the Netherlands to western Africa to Brazil and the Caribbean , then to New Amsterdam , and so back to Europe . ''
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