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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 ...
Pages in category "Television shows about American slavery" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Arnold is driven by his envy of his father's self-confident black workers. Thus, he persuades Mack, the black son of one of the freedmen employed by his father, to jump into a dead well, which causes a permanent limp. For the first time, Arnold makes his own money by supporting a group of slave catchers hunting down a runaway black man.
Consequently, the release of a slave was to be immediate upon conversion. If unaccepted, the Jewish slave owner was required to sell the slave to non-Jews by the end of the 12-month period (Mishneh Torah, Sefer Kinyan 5:8:14). Prior to enslavement, if the non-Jewish individual decides to become a permanent slave by refusing to convert, the 12 ...
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 ...
Despite anti-Black restrictions in the constitution of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim that banned Black converts from membership, Simmons was among the few African-American Jews known to have attended the synagogue during the antebellum period. [3] [4] Simmons attended the synagogue during the 1850s and was known to members as Uncle Billy.