Thread by @Timayenis

Jews and the Atlantic Slave Trade
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The Jewish involvement in the Atlantic slave trade is a "taboo topic" for many historians, and even mentioning it can be considered antisemitic. In this thread, I will provide some evidence on this topic.

Let's start with the ships that played a significant role in the Atlantic slave trade. Image from the four-volume series called "Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America" by historian Elizabeth Donnan.

From the book "Sins of the fathers: a study of the Atlantic slave traders, 1441-1807" by Pope-Hennessy, James.
You can read it here: archive.org/details/sinsof…

Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonian slave trade, they even had a "Jewish tax" for each negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Also, slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday.

Of course, Jews were not only slave traders but also some of the leading slaveholders.
From the book "New World Jewry, 1493-1825, Requiem For The Forgotten" by Seymour B. Liebman
You can read it here: archive.org/details/new-wo…

"Almost 40 percent of all Jewish householders in the United States owned one slave or more."
From the book "United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Volume 1" by Jacob Rader Marcus.
You can read it here: archive.org/details/united…

Based on the previous source, at a minimum, well over 20% of all US slave owners were Jews, despite being 0.7% of the population at the time.

Even the Jewish Encyclopedia acknowledges that during the seventeenth century the sugar industry was monopolized by the Jews and that the cotton plantations in many parts of the South were wholly in the hands of the Jews.

Some examples:

Excerpt from the article "Caribbean Project: Jews, Slavery, and the Dutch Caribbean" by Hunter Wallace.
You can read it here: occidentaldissent.com/2012/08/28/car…

"Who were the slavers - some notable examples"

An excellent book I recommend is "Jews and Negro Slavery in the Old South, 1789–1865" by Bertram Wallace Korn.
You can read it here: archive.org/details/JewsAn…

From the book "An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa" by Alexander Falconbridge.
You can read it here: archive.org/details/accoun…

The most famous book on this topic is the first volume of the 3-volume series called "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews" by the Nation of Islam. Some quotes from the book:

The inspiration for this thread was "The Jewish Onslaught" by Professor Tony Martin. A book that exposes the well-documented Jewish role in the Atlantic slave trade.
You can read it here: archive.org/details/tonyma…

In this link, you can find a 2-hour lecture by Professor Tony Martin about the Jewish role in the trading of African slaves: archive.org/details/jewish…

In Memoriam: Professor Tony Martin. (21 February 1942 – 17 January 2013)