Newcomers The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York

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Newcomers The Story of Anthony and Grietje and the Founding of New York | 15.7 MB

Title: Newcomers
Author: Alan Mikhail
Category: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775), Biography & Memoir, Historical
Language: English | 240 Pages | ISBN: 1324095830


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"Newcomers illuminates a vibrant, teeming story of ambition, struggle, and hard-won success, unfolding in a world that the standard accounts banish to the footnotes." -John Matteson

One of Book Culture's "Most-Anticipated New Books for May 2026"
A man thought to be a Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid fleeing poverty are hardly the images we have of America's august founders. In Newcomers, Alan Mikhail upends the traditional story of America's origins through the revelatory tale of a seventeenth-century immigrant couple by the names of Anthony and Grietje.

Married in Amsterdam, the destitute pair emerged from lives of piracy and prostitution in Europe and arrived in 1630s Dutch New Amsterdam, hoping to build a new life. Upon landing on New York City's shores, the swarthy Anthony was attacked for being the Muslim he was not, while Grietje, branded a whore by crude harbor denizens, would become the model of an independent...

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