Aaron Lopez - cryptojew - largest slave trader in the history

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Lopez

Between 1761 and 1774, Lopez was involved in the slave trade. While The Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews describes Lopez as "Newport's leading participant in the Black Holocaust", historian Eli Faber determined Lopez underwrote 21 slave ships during a period in which Newport sent a total of 347 slave ships to Africa, and Faber described Lopez's ventures in the slave trade as "an infinitesimal part" of the British slave trade. By the beginning of the American Revolution, Lopez owned or controlled 30 vessels.