This week on Tales of History and Imagination we return to the wreck of the Batavia. In part two we discuss heresy, and the harrowing life of under-merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz. 

This is part two of a four parter.

Trigger warnings: Murder, colonialism, child mortality, religious extremism.   

Sources Include:

Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash

And Batavia by Peter Fitzsimons. 

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