LISTEN: Did This Muslim Troublemaker Help Found New York? (opens in new tab)

Anthony Janszoon van Salee and his wife Geitje were always feuding with neighbors and authorities, who put them down as the Turk and a whore and who kept putting them on trial before they were finally exiled from Manhattan — only to become the biggest landowners in what’s now Brooklyn, with descendants who married into […] The post appeared first on .