The first free Muslim settler in Manhattan, Anthony Jansen Van Salee, landed in 1633.  Six years later, the Dutch and North African rabble-rouser, who’d become one of the largest landowners in what was then New Amsterdam, was banished to the hinterlands of Brooklyn for a litany of colorful misdeeds, including paying wages with a dead […]

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