Anthony Janszoon van Salee - CORRECTION NEEDED: The Photograph in this profile is not Anthony Van Salee There was NO Photography during his life.

I can confirm the image is of Omar Ibn Said who was 37 years old when he was taken from his West African home and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, as a slave in the 1800s. Now, his one-of-a-kind autobiographical manuscript has been translated from its original Arabic and housed at the Library of Congress.

Thank you for the information. I see the image has been removed from profile.

The mother of Anthony Jansen van Salee was most likely Arabic not African. Many confirmed descendants of Anthony have no African DNA, but do have Middle Eastern DNA. It was suggested that Anthony's mother was one of the many daughters of the Dey of Morocco at the time when his father Jan was an admiral for that Leader at the time.