Alan Mikhail´s Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York

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 American royalty. Alan Mikhail, the author of Newcomers: The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York, joins Harry Siegel and guest host Asad Dandia — t...