Analysis Of Simon Middleton's How It Came That The Bakers Bake No Bread

Simon Middleton’s piece, “’How It Came that the Bakers Bake No Bread’: A Struggle for Trade Privileges in Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam" was created as a primary source to argue that free-market oriented economies were brought up during the 1661 Dutch bread shortage in their North American colony. The consumption of bread and related items rose increasingly with a massive shortage due to the miscalculation of how many people were involved. Middleton writes this document to collect the attention of his cultured audience by depicting the origins of free trade which is similarly impressive because around roughly the same time William Penn proposed the startup of modern local democracy in North America by colonists. Middleton’s intention was