## ***SERVANTS, MASTERS, AND FAMILIES. AFRICAN AND EURAFRICAN JEWS IN 17TH CENTURY AMSTERDAM***## ***SEPHARDIC WORLD, SUNDAY 12 JUNE 2022***## ***WITH MARK PONTE***How did the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam relate to African slaves, servants, and non-white community members? ***Mark Ponte*** will share the history of black people in Sephardic households during the Dutch Golden Age. One example, Hanna Vas was a black slave who had children with Moses Moreno-Monsanto, and later married him. Moses wrote four Wills, testifying to the complexity of the situation. Who were the black people involved in the life of the Portuguese Jewish community, what was their place in the family, and what is their legacy?***Mark Ponte*** is a historian working on Early Modern migration and slavery in Amsterdam and the Dutch Atlantic. He works part-time at the Amsterdam City Archives, including on the project ‘Alle Amsterdamse Akten’. In recent years he has mainly published on Black Amsterdammers in the 17th Century. He was a researcher and author for the exhibition Black in Rembrandt's Time in the Rembrandt House Museum (2020) and created the exhibition 'Amsterdammers and Slavery’ (2021) was a research fellow at the Mauritshuis Museum. He regularly writes contributions for (public) historical books and magazines.The meeting is on Sunday 12 June 2022 at 11am in LA, 2pm NYC, 7pm London, 8pm Paris/Amsterdam, and 9pm Jerusalem. Patrons can join us on Zoom. The link is shared at our Patreon page at: [https://www.patreon.com/sephardi](https://www.patreon.com/sephardi?fbclid=IwAR0cfeB1uDQr5npNYh6LC0_rgGFrFsKAI9_aOdsRL5ETX-a-jRbqVAWDfuo)Everyone is welcome to join us on YouTube at: [https://www.youtube.com/SephardicGenealogyAndHistory](https://www.youtube.com/SephardicGenealogyAndHistory?fbclid=IwAR0KX_IIWerf-F9s0LNXop0Rr5ttzUGteiw8d40tKWCSN1uRNmYm3WeJWrk) PLEASE subscribe to the YouTube channel. It helps us a lot and costs you nothing.Over the last two years, Sephardic World has become the leading forum for learning about Sephardic history and genealogy. We have no commercial sponsorship or public funding. There is no charge to attend our meetings or to view our content. If you are not a patron and can afford it, please consider supporting our work.*Best wishes,**Ton and David**Sephardic World**Black slave outside the Pinto residence in Amsterdam*