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The island of Manhattan must have seemed huge to the Dutch who first arrived in 1626, securing the rights to farmland by paying the Lenape people $24 in beads and trinkets for the area that would come to be known as “Manhatto.” Forty years later the British took over and the island would grow soContinue reading “Islands, Elevators, Cows, and Crops: Migration Economics. Genesis 36:6-8.”