Jews talking about slavery (1/2)
American Jewish Historical Society - New World Jewry- 1493-1825: Requiem for the Forgotten- Seymour B. Liebman
"They came with ships carrying African blacks to be sold as slaves. The traffic in slaves was a royal monopoly, and the Jews were often appointed as agents for the Crown in their sale."
"The Jews were the largest ship chandlers in the entire Caribbean region, where the shipping business was mainly a Jewish enterprise."
"The ships were not only owned by Jews, but were manned by Jewish crews and sailed under the command of Jewish captains."
Jews and Judaism in the United States: A Documentary History - Marc Lee Raphael
"Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique,) British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated."
"This was no less true on the North American mainland, where during the eighteenth century Jews participated in the "triangular trade"that brought slaves from Africa to the West Indies and exchanged them for molasses, which in turn was taken to New England and converted into rum for sale in Africa."
"IsaacDa Costa of Charleston in the 1750's, David Franks of Philadelphia in the 1760's and Aaron Lopez of Newport in the late 1760's and early 1770's dominated Jewish slave trading on the American continent."
Jews in Colonial Brazil: Arnold Wiznitzer- Pages 72 & 73:
"The buyers that appeared at the auctions were almost always Jews, and because of their lack of competitors they could buy slaves at low prices." "If it happened that the date of such an auction fell on a Jewish holiday the auction had to be postponed."