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The Monsanto family is a historical Sephardic Jewish merchant and banking business [1] who played a significant role in founding the Jewish community in Colonial Louisiana (then transferring between French and Spanish rule) in the 18th century.
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
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 ...
Slave-Trading in the Old South by Frederic Bancroft, an independently wealthy freelance historian, is a classic [1] history of domestic slave trade in the antebellum United States. Among other things, Bancroft discredited the assertions, then common in Ulrich B. Phillips -influenced histories of antebellum America , that slave traders were ...
The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically ...
The social structure of the Old South was made an important research topic for scholars by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips in the early 20th century. [3] The romanticized image of the "Old South" tells of slavery's plantations, as famously typified in Gone with the Wind, a blockbuster 1936 novel and its adaptation in a 1939 Hollywood film, along with the animated Disney film, Song of the South (1946).
The romanticized image of the "Old South" tells of slavery's plantations, as famously typified in Gone with the Wind, a blockbuster 1936 novel and its adaptation in a 1939 Hollywood film, along with other popular media portrayals. Historians in recent decades have paid much more attention to the enslaved people of the South and the world they ...
The history of the domestic slave trade can very clumsily be divided into three major periods: 1776 to 1808: This period began with the Declaration of Independence and ended when the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean was prohibited under federal law in 1808; the importation of slaves was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed ...