Welcome to the melting pot (and we don’t mean the weather)
July 8th, 2008
The first black setters in NYC were some 10 or 12 Angolan men who disembarked as slaves in 1625. By 1644, they were granted freedom.
The first Italian settler in NYC: Pietro Cesare Alberto in 1635.
The first Jewish settler in NYC: Jacob bar Simson in 1654.
The first Chinese New Yorker was Ah Ken, a Cantonese who set foot in NYC in 1858.
The first sign of a melting pot: In the 1643 words of Jesuit missionary Father Isaac Jogues, “On the island of Manhate, and in its environs, the Director General told me that there were men of eighteen different languages.â€
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