With the signing of the peace treaty between the Dutch and the English in 1667, the colony of New Amsterdam came under English control and was renamed New Amsterdam -Amsterdam. York. As a relatively new colony, the English sought to establish a society and, more importantly, an economy. Due to New York's strategically accessible geographic location near water, a more marketable and industrialized economy was developed compared to the cash crop plantation economies of the South. Labor remained in high demand in New York during the early 18th century, making the Atlantic slave trade a crucial part of the economy. Specifically, between the 1720s and 1730s, only two slave voyages made it to New York; one of which was named Crown Gally, commanded by Captain Dennis Downing. The voyage of the Crown Gally explains not only why there were only two slave voyages during this period, but also why colonists looked to Madagascar for slaves and why so many slaves died in the during the journey to the New World. On February 2, 1720, the Crown Gally sailed from London bound for Madagascar, which was the main site for buying slaves. Once the two hundred and forty slaves had boarded the ship in Madagascar, the Crown Gally then began the remainder of a four hundred and sixty-seven day voyage to New York, disembarking on June 5, 1721. 1 Although this itinerary may appear this is unlike any other slave voyage that left London and purchased slaves on the west coast of Africa. In fact, the Crown Gally's voyage to New York was completely illegal.Before the date of embarkation from London in 1720, the Crown Gally, which was registered in London, was previously registered in New York in 1716 and... .. middle of paper......ar Slave Trade, "The William and Mary Quarterly, 26, no. 4 (1969): 549 550 571, Darold D. Wax, "Preferences for slaves in Colonial America", The Journal of Negro History, 58, n° 4 (1973): 386, 389Joseph E. Inikori, “The Volume of the British Slave Trade, 1655-1807”, Cahiers d African Studies, 32, no. 128 (1992): 646,647www.slaveyoyages.org: Summary of statistics 1700-1750 Travels to New YorkMike Parker Pearson, “Close encounters of the worst kind: Malagasy resistance and colonial disasters in southern Madagascar », World Archaeology, 28, no. 3 (1997): 393-394,401, 409www.slavevoyages.org Summary of statistics Travels in New York 1700-1800Richard B Allen, « Satisfying the “need for workers”: the European slave trade in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850," Journal of World History, 21, no. 1 (2010): 58,