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Jewish slave owners were found mostly in business or domestic settings, rather than on plantations, so most of the slave ownership was in an urban context—running a business or as domestic servants. [159] [160] Jewish slave owners freed their black slaves at about the same rate as non-Jewish slave owners. [13]
David Brion Davis, "The Jews and the Slave Trade," To blame Jews for participating in the Atlantic slave trade is a bit like blaming Native Americans for contributing to the oil industry that now threatens the earth with atmospheric pollution and global warming. After eastern Indian tribes were expelled westward to Oklahoma, some members of the ...
Friedman notes that while there were Jewish slave traders and slave owners, they were a minority, and even argues that on average, they treated their slaves better than others. [1] Joseph C. Miller also reviewed the book that year in The Journal of American History. Likewise, he agrees that Friedman work successfully debunks the 1981 book by ...
Jewish views on slavery; Jews and the American Slave Trade (book) Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade; Jodensavanne; K. Meir Kahane; M. Mordecai House; Changes to the ...
This and the end of the Seven Years' War, which meant the opportunity for trade with Europe, attracted Jews to New Orleans who had been involved in the slave trade in the Caribbean (ie - Curaçao, Jamaica and Saint-Domingue) [2] and also the inter-American slave trade between the Caribbean and territories bordering the Gulf of Mexico.
Jews had previously, in large parts of Western Europe, enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the spice trade. The slave trade appears to have been continued by other agents, for example, for the year 1168, Helmold von Bosau reports that 700 enslaved Danes were offered for sale in Mecklenburg by Slavic pirates. [ 2 ]
In the years preceding the American Civil War, prominent Jewish religious leaders in the United States engaged in public debates, usually in writing, about slavery. [8] [9] Generally, rabbis from the Southern states supported slavery, and those from the North opposed slavery, [10] but there were many exceptions.
Judah Mordechai Cohen (1768 – 8 September 1838) was a Dutch-born British merchant and planter with interests in Jamaica.Owning over 1255 slaves on his plantations, Cohen was one of the largest slave owners in both Jamaica and the British West Indies in general at the time of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.