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Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789–1865, 1961, Presidential address to American Jewish Historical Society, full text online at Archive.org; The Early Jews of New Orleans (1969) [3] "The Jews of Mobile, Alabama, Prior to the First Congregation, in 1841", Hebrew Union College Annual Vol. 40/41 (1969–1970), pp. 469–502
Benjamin Monsanto had a brother, Manuel Jacob Monsanto, who was also prominent in Louisiana, he was known for his involvement in the slave trade where he dealt in African slaves (he engaged in twelve such contracts between 1787 and 1789). [10] [11]
After 1865 many and perhaps most of the small town merchants in the South were Jewish. They enjoyed a degree of prosperity and tolerance, mainly because they were better able to integrate into the smaller Southern communities. . Instead, animosity was directed African Americans. Jewish merchants were on good terms with Black customers. [8] [9 ...
[4]: 597 As such, "Confrontation in the Old South characteristically took the form of an individual slave's open resistance to plantation authorities," [4]: 599 or other individual or small-group actions, such as slaves opportunistically killing slave traders in hopes of avoiding forced migration away from friends and family. [5] [6]
As slavery began to displace indentured servitude as the principal supply of labor in the plantation systems of the South, the economic nature of the institution of slavery aided in the increased inequality of wealth seen in the antebellum South. The demand for slave labor and the U.S. ban on importing more slaves from Africa drove up prices ...
The Smithsonian Channel has shared a clip promoting “One Thousand Years of Slavery,” a new docuseries that aims to tell the global story of slavery. The four-part series features interviews ...
The status of three slaves who traveled from Kentucky to the free states of Indiana and Ohio depended on Kentucky slave law rather than Ohio law, which had abolished slavery. 1852: Lemmon v. New York: Superior Court of the City of New York: Granted freedom to slaves who were brought into New York by their Virginia slave owners, while in transit ...
Jewish slave owners were mostly found in business or domestic settings, rather than plantations, so most of the slave ownership was in an urban context — running a business or working as domestic servants. [191] [192] Jewish slave owners freed their Black slaves at about the same rate as non-Jewish slave owners. [190]