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solid range of standard quantitative sources (Naval Office shipping lists, censuses, tax records, and so on) to assess the prominence in slaving and slave owning of merchants and planters identifiable as Jewish in Barbados, Jamaica, New York, Newport, Philadelphia, Charleston, and all other smaller English colonial ports. He follows this strategy in the Caribbean through the 1820s; his North American coverage effectively terminates in 1775. Faber acknowledges the few merchants of Jewish background locally prominent in slaving during the second half of the eighteenth century but otherwise confirms the small-to-minuscule size of colonial Jewish communities of any sort and shows them engaged in slaving and slave holding only to degrees indistinguishable from those of their English competitors.

797:"Medieval Christians greatly exaggerated the supposed Jewish control over trade and finance and also became obsessed with alleged Jewish plots to enslave, convert, or sell non-Jews... Most European Jews lived in poor communities on the margins of Christian society; they continued to suffer most of the legal disabilities associated with slavery. ... Whatever Jewish refugees from Brazil may have contributed to the northwestward expansion of sugar and slaves, it is clear that Jews had no major or continuing impact on the history of New World slavery." - Professor David Brion Davis of Yale University in 290:"Medieval Christians greatly exaggerated the supposed Jewish control over trade and finance and also became obsessed with alleged Jewish plots to enslave, convert, or sell non-Jews... Most European Jews lived in poor communities on the margins of Christian society; they continued to suffer most of the legal disabilities associated with slavery. ... Whatever Jewish refugees from Brazil may have contributed to the northwestward expansion of sugar and slaves, it is clear that Jews had no major or continuing impact on the history of New World slavery." - Professor David Brion Davis of Yale University in 808:"The Jews of Newport seem not to have pursued the business consistently ... we compare the number of vessels employed in the traffic by all merchants with the number sent to the African coast by Jewish traders ... we can see that the Jewish participation was minimal. It may be safely assumed that over a period of years American Jewish businessmen were accountable for considerably less than two percent of the slave imports into the West Indies" - Professor Jacob R. Marcus of Hebrew Union College in 301:"The Jews of Newport seem not to have pursued the business consistently ... we compare the number of vessels employed in the traffic by all merchants with the number sent to the African coast by Jewish traders ... we can see that the Jewish participation was minimal. It may be safely assumed that over a period of years American Jewish businessmen were accountable for considerably less than two percent of the slave imports into the West Indies" - Professor Jacob R. Marcus of Hebrew Union College in 786:"In no period did Jews play a leading role as financiers, shipowners, or factors in the transatlantic or Caribbean slave trades. They possessed far fewer slaves than non-Jews in every British territory in North America and the Caribbean. Even when Jews in a handful of places owned slaves in proportions slightly above their representation among a town's families, such cases do not come close to corroborating the assertions of The Secret Relationship." - Wim Klooster (University of Southern Maine): 279:"In no period did Jews play a leading role as financiers, shipowners, or factors in the transatlantic or Caribbean slave trades. They possessed far fewer slaves than non-Jews in every British territory in North America and the Caribbean. Even when Jews in a handful of places owned slaves in proportions slightly above their representation among a town's families, such cases do not come close to corroborating the assertions of The Secret Relationship." - Wim Klooster (University of Southern Maine): 576:, however in no period did Jews play a leading role as financiers, shipowners, or factors in the transatlantic or Caribbean slave trades. He said that Jews rarely established new slave-trading routes, but rather worked in conjunction with a Christian partner, on trade routes that had been established by Christians and endorsed by Christian leaders of nations. In 1995, in an action unprecedented in it's 111 years history, the 931:

Europe, Africa, and the Americas. As a result of this situation, the Sephardim found themselves dispersed over the critical nodes of the new system, especially Amsterdam and Brazil. It was not the material wealth of the Jews that made them so crucial to this emerging South Atlantic economy but rather ... their ability to transfer assets and information among themselves across the entire economic network".

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during most periods of the Atlantic system ... its distribution of coerced migrants from Europe and Africa. Only in the Americas—momentarily in Brazil, more durably in the Caribbean—can the role of Jewish traders be described as significant. If we consider the whole complex of major class actors in the transatlantic slave trade, the share of Jews in this vast network is extremely modest.

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Drescher: JANCAST: - p 451: "J mercantile influence in the politics of the Atlantic slave trade probably readhced its peak in the opening years of the eightteenth century....the political and the economic prospects of Dutch Sephardic capitalists rapidly faded, however, when the English emerged with

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The economic, social, legal, and racial pattern of the Atlantic slave trade was in place before Jews made their way back to the Atlantic ports of northwestern Europe, to the coasts and islands of Africa, or to European colonies in the Americas. They were marginal collective actors in most places and

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Austen: p 134: "the authors underestimate the structural, as opposed to statistical, importance of the Jews in the early stages of the New World slave trade... the book might better have focused on the coincidence of the Jewish explusion from Spain with the establishment of triangular links between

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Drescher, EAJH-vol1 "The available evidence indicates that the Jewish network probably counted for little in Atlantic slaving. The few cases of long-term Jewish participation in the eighteenth-centurey slave trades offer evidence of cross-religious networks as keys to their success. In case after

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in the 1490s, many Jews from Spain and Portugal migrated to the Americas and to Holland, among other destinations. They there formed an important "network of trading families" that enabled them to transfer assets and information that contributed to the emerging South Atlantic economy. Other Jews

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Had the return of the Jews to Europe's Atlantic ports been post-poned until the 1790s instead of the 1590s, the volume of enslavement or distribution of Africans in the Atlantic system would hardly have been altered. The "Jewish presence" in the slave trade was too ephemeral, too localized, and too

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Dreshcer, p 107: "A small fragment of the Jewis diaspora fled ... westward into the Americas, there becoming entiwned with the African slave trade"....they could only prosper by moving into high risk and new areas of economic development. In the expanding Western European economy after the Columbus

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Drescher-EAJH -vol1 2)" does not hold for the New Christian descendants of Jews during the period of Iberian domination (1450-1640). Their importrance in the development of the slave trade to the Americas must be given its due. When Portuguese merchants became the first global trading diaspora,

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David Brion Davis argues that Jews had no major or continuing impact on the history of New World slavery. These charges were widely refuted by other scholars, as well. While acknowledging Jewish participation in slavery, scholars reject allegations that Jews dominated the slave trade in Medieval

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Considering the number of African captives who passed into and through the hands of captors and dealers with capture in Africa until sale in America, it is unlikely that more than a fraction of 1 percent of the twelve million enslaved and relayed Africans were purchased or sold by Jewish merchants

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Eli Faber takes a quantitative approach to Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade in Britain's Atlantic empire, starting with the arrival of Sephardic Jews in the London resettlement of the 1650s, calculating their participation in the trading companies of the late seventeenth century, and then using a

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on Aug 14, 2010. Marokwitz wrote on talk on Aug 18: "This article is shocking - selective quoting and misinterpretation of sources in an extreme way, to the extent which I never encountered in Knowledge (XXG). Some sources were completely turned on their head to prove the absolute opposite of what

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Schorsch:* page 50: "Jewish slave owning remained minimal. Only with the confluence of the relative Protestant religous tolerance and the soceieconomic needs generated by overseas colonization did Jews emerge as players of note in the slave economy of western Protestant

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case, Jews who participated in multiple slaving voyages ... linked themselves to Christian agents or partners. It was not as Jews, but as merchants, that traders ventured into one of the great enterprises of the early modern world." Drescher, in Ency Am. J. Hist. p. 416.

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voyages, this meant getting footholds within the new markest at the fringes of Europe, primarily in overseas enclaves. One of these new 'products' was human beings. It was here that Jews, or descendants of Jews, appeared on the rosters of Europe's slave trade".

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Allegations that Jews had a major contribution to Atlantic slave trade were denied by David Brion Davis, who argued that Jews had no major or continuing impact on the history of New World slavery. These charges were widely refuted by other scholars, as well.

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Jewish participation in the Atlantic slave trade increased through the 1600s because Spain and Portugual maintained a dominant role in the Atlantic trade. Jewish participation in the trade peaked in the early 1700s, but started to decline after the

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New Christians were prominent in its growth…. As a loose network of trading families, they pioneered in the formation of the European-Asian-African-Amerian complex that contribted to the New World's first African based slave economies." page 416

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even once. ... At no point along the continuum of the slave trade were Jews numerous enough, rich enough, and powerful enough to affect significantly the structure and flow of the slave trade or to diminish the suffering of its African victims.

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Historian Seymour Drescher suggests that Jews rarely established new slave-trading routes, but rather worked in conjunction with a Christian partner, on trade routes that had been established by Christians and endorsed by Christian leaders of

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Jews possessed far fewer slaves than non-Jews in every British territory in North America and the Caribbean, and in no period did they play a leading role as financiers, shipowners, or factors in the transatlantic or Caribbean slave trades.

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since the 5th century. During the Middle ages, among the Arabs and the Europe Christians, some Jews, are alleged to be among them. In the 1490s, the Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal, at the same time that trade with the

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Drescher JANCAST: p 455: "only in the Americas - momentarily in Brazil, more durably in the Caribbean - can the role of Jewish traders be described as significant." .. but elsewhere involvemnent was modest or minimal p

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in 1991, which asserted that Jews played a major role in the Atlantic slave trade. The book was widely criticized as anti-Semitic and led to additional scholarly research on the subject, including books such as

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since the 5th century. During the Middle ages, Jews traded slaves in Europe and around the Meditteranean. In the 1490s, the Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal, at the same time that trade with the

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Jewish participation in the Atlantic slave trade arose as the result of a confluence of two historical events: the explusion of Jews from Spain and Portugal, and the discovery of the New World.

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Jewish participation in the Atlantic slave trade arose as the result of a confluence of two historical events: the explusion of Jews from Spain and Portugal, and the discovery of the New World.

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Jews participated in the slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic: in Holland, Spain, and Portugal on the eastern side, and in Brazil, Caribbean, and North America on the west side.

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Jews participated in the slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic: in Holland, Spain, and Portugal on the eastern side, and in Brazil, Caribbean, and North America on the west side.

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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom—and Revenge

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by Saul S. Friedman, which concluded that Jewish involvement in the slave trade was "minimal" and comparable to other groups of slave-traders such as the English.

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by Saul S. Friedman, which concluded that Jewish involvement in the slave trade was "minimal" and comparable to other groups of slave-traders such as the English.

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While acknowledging Jewish participation in slavery, scholars reject allegations that Jews dominated the slave trade in Medieval Europe, Africa, and/or the

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in 1713 when England obtained the right to sell slaves in Spanish colonies, and England and France started to compete with Spain and Portugal.

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in 1713 when England obtained the right to sell slaves in Spanish colonies, and England and France started to compete with Spain and Portugal.

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The Atlantic slave trade transfered African slaves from Africa to colonies in the New World. Much of the slave trade followed a

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Outside of Brazil, Rhode Island, Suriname, and the Caribbean, Jewish participation was generally considered modest or minimal.

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Outside of Brazil, Rhode Island, Suriname, and the Caribbean, Jewish participation was generally considered modest or minimal.

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Jewish population centers arose in Holland, Brazil, and Suriname, and these centers played a role in the slave trade.

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Jewish population centers arose in Holland, Brazil, and Suriname, and these centers played a role in the slave trade.

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Jew on the brain: A public refutation of the Nation of Islam's The Secret relationship between Blacks and Jews

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A study of Brazilian Jewish history 1623-1654: based chiefly upon the findings of the late Samuel Oppenheim

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was opening up, leading to their participation in Atlantic trading in general, and the

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Jew-Hatred As History: An Analysis of the Nation of Islam's "The Secret Relationship"

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Strangers & neighbors: relations between Blacks & Jews in the United States

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