Russell Shorto

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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · You Can't Understand America Without Understanding New York - Russell Shorto · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

But that you have to qualify that because how tolerant can you ultimately be if you have slavery?

I mean, it's just and how tolerant are you if you are in the process of dispossessing Native people of their territory?

So those things are part of the picture.

How tolerant are you?

You know, Peter Stuyvesant, one of the most famous documents from that period is the Flushing Remonstrance, which is a little story in which Peter Stuyvesant, the leader of the Dutch colony,

Among this diversity of the population, there are English settlers.

So within the Dutch colony, you have English settlers, and one of the English communities was the town of Flushing, which originally was Vlissingen.

The Dutch name was Vlissingen.

And a group of English Quakers wanted to settle there.

And Stuyvesant didn't want that because he he didn't like religious diversity, actually, even though that was part of the national policy, because it made his life difficult.

You know, religion is divisive.

So what do you so he tried to bar them from settling.

And the English leaders of the community write him this letter basically saying, look, your own Dutch laws say we have to allow these people to settle.

So you've got this.

That's basically a civil rights story.

And you've got several of those kinds of civil rights stories playing out within this colony.

The story of slavery is a complicated one, but a really interesting one at this time, because this is before slavery.

The kind of slavery we tend to think of when we think of the plantations in the South, in the American South, that kind of thing.

They were making it up.

The Dutch and other Europeans were making it up as they went.

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