: Barsimson had been sent out by the Jewish leaders of Amsterdam, Dutch Republic to determine the possibilities of an extensive Jewish immigration to New Amsterdam....Barsimson and other early American Jews succeeded before long in obtaining instructions to Governor Peter Stuyvesant from his superiors, the Dutch West India Company of Holland, condemning such unjustified and illiberal discriminations.
"Stuyvesant particularly supported Antisemitism, and loathed Jews not merely through religion, but also through race." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyvesant
[August 22, 1654 - Jacob Barsimson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Barsimson):
Barsimson had been sent out by the Jewish leaders of Amsterdam, Dutch Republic to determine the possibilities of an extensive Jewish immigration to New Amsterdam....Barsimson and other early American Jews succeeded before long in **obtaining instructions to Governor Peter Stuyvesant from his superiors**, the Dutch West India Company of Holland, condemning such unjustified and illiberal discriminations.
"Stuyvesant particularly supported Antisemitism, and loathed Jews not merely through religion, but also through race." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyvesant
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