A time line attemt:
WIC launces thier ''great design'' a plan to conquer the sugar rich Portuguese colony of Brazil and the African slave stations.
After initial succes the Dutch are bogged down due to guerrila war of the Brazeriero's and are force the leave Salvadod de Bahia.
1634 Maurits Nassau Siegen is hired to re-vitalize the war and to finally end Portuguese rule in Brazil. IN a several very swift and succesful campaign he succeed. Culmulating in the difficult but finally sucses full siege of Salvador. On the other side of the Atlantic several slave forts are conqered as well, Luanda at Angola and Elmina at the Gold Coast.
Despite the humanist aproach of Nassau siegen the Portuguese revolt in the 1640ties but the Portuguese asked for a peace settlement status ante bellum. This gave the Dutch control over Elmina and Luanda and almost whole Portuguese Brazil ( exept what now is Sao Paulo and Rio)
1649 WIC is in severe financial problems, due the high cost for war and the Stat General decide not to renew the charter of the company under influence of Amsterdam traders who favour free trade on the Atlantic.
1650 The WIC went bust possesion are under direct control of the State General or are sold to the higest bidder, which see the emrge of dozen of smaller trade companies who take over the slave stations.
1652 Nassau Siegen embraced a live as a royal and rule the colony as an enlightened despote, only encountered by colonial counsel and his far away master of the State General of the Dutch Republic.
The 1st Anglo-Dutch war does not effect must on New Holland except it disrupt trade.
The 2nd Anglo-Dutch war saw an ill fated attempt under the Duke of York to capture Recife or Mauritopolis, the administrative centre and biggest and richest city of Dutch Brazil.
1672 Maurits of Nassau Siegen dies. He is burried in a splendid grave in the Large Church of Mauritiopolis. He leaves a widdow, mistresses and a dozen children.
The colony would no be ruled by the State General of the Colony, which is devided in provinces and rule by counsils them selve. The whole manner of rue is almost a coppy of that of the Dutch Republic.
1672 When the Republic is under siege by France, England and Munster it provides monney, men and ships as far as it can. This is the first show of loyalty towards the motherland.
During the wars of the early 18th century it shows at all time their loyalty towards the Republic how ever during the 2nd half of the 18th century it distance it selve from the Republicans in the Netherlands and thier facination with France. When the revolutionar wars reach the Netherlands Dutch Brazil sided with the English, not only for political motvations but also for trade motives.
When Napoleon neters the stage this proved to be a wise decion.
All Dutch over seas posessions will be seized by the English, New Amsterdam will join the USA.
The Cape colony comes under rule of Dutch Brazil and not to the now called Batavian Republic.
1814 All colonies are returned to the Dutch exept Ceylon and the Indian trade forts.
In return for extended self rule (defacto independence)Dutch Brasil returned unde the rule of the new Dutch King William I
During the first halve of the 19th century Dutch Brazil florish as never before. The plantations provide an vast stream of goods, as suggar, coffee, wood, kinine, tea, cacao etc.
Dutch Brasil it self proved to be an excelent market for the textile industry of Ghent and new heavy industry of Walony, which are part of the new Dutch Kingdom.
Even the Dutch are not allowed to trade slaves over seas since 1814 the plantations are still run by slave labor. This cheap labor set a brake on more efficient and modern prodution methods and when slave labor is finaly banned in 1870, economic reality made slave labor obsolete when the world ecomy came in crisses in 1870. Only the plantations who did invest in more productive methods and mechanisation did survive.
It saw as well a large influx f contract workers from Southern India, Java, Sumatra, and later even from the Souh of Italy.