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Diversity, Strife, and Toleration in 17th-Century Breukelen /Online Event
Meet Dutch-Muslim farmer Anthony Jansen van Salée, AKA “The Turk,” and his feisty Dutch wife Grietje in 17th-century Breukelen .
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Diversity, Strife, and Toleration in 17th-Century Breukelen
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Alan Mikhail
Yale University
Eric Platt
St. Francis College in Brooklyn
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Dr. Julie Golia
Curator, New York Public Library
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17th-century Breukelen was notable for squabbling neighbors, and as a test site for tolerance. Join us to explore the history of early settlement near today’s Coney Island in Brooklyn, where tensions arose between the Dutch and the “dangerous” Lady Deborah Moody’s English community at Gravesend. The program introduces little-known Dutch farmer Anthony Jansen van Salée, AKA “The Turk,” the first New Netherland resident of Muslim background, and his feisty Dutch wife Grietje, both expelled by the West India Company to then-frontier Brooklyn – considered the perfect destination for suspect miscreants.
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About Our Panelists
Alan Mikhail, Chace Family Professor of History at Yale University, and Chair of the Department of History, is widely recognized for his work in Middle Eastern and global history. He is the author of four books and over thirty scholarly articles, and in 2018 received the Anneliese Maier Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for internationally distinguished humanities scholars and social scientists. His latest book is God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World. Professor Mikhail’s writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Eric Platt, Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Economics, History, and Political Science at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, is an expert in 17th-century Brooklyn history. His book, Britain and the Bestandstwisten: The Causes, Course and Consequences of British Involvement in the Dutch Religious and Political Disputes of the Early Seventeenth Century, was published in 2015. He is currently working on his second book, a study of Lady Deborah Moody and the early history of Gravesend, which settlement she founded in the mid-17th century in what is now Brooklyn.
Julie Golia is Curator of History, Social Sciences, and Government Information at The New York Public Library. She was previously Vice President for Curatorial Affairs and Collections at Brooklyn Historical Society (now the Center for Brooklyn History). Dr. Golia is the author of Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age (Oxford University Press, 2021).
