jews and slavery - some quick quotes

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"Almost all the early Jewish settlers in America belonged to the wealthy classes, it was natural for [jews] to accept the institution of slavery as they found it, and to derive as much benefit from it..." "[slavery] was principally in the hands of the Jews."
—Peter Wiernik, History of the Jews in America, Jewish Press Publishing Co., New York, 1912

"... [The Jews] were the largest ship chandlers in the entire Caribbean region, the shipping business was mainly a Jewish enterprise ... The slave ships were not only owned by Jews, but were manned by Jewish crews and sailed under the command of Jewish captains."
—Seymour Liebman, New World Jewry, 1493-1825 , Ktav Publishing House, 1982

" All through the eighteenth century, into the early nineteenth, Jews, in the North were to own black servants; in the South, the few plantation owned by Jews were tilled with slave labor. In 1820, over 80 percent of all Jewish household in Charleston, Richmond, and Savannah owned slaves, employed as domestic servants; ...40 per cent of all Jewish households in the United States owned one slave or more. There were no protests against slavery as such by Jews in the South... But very few Jews anywhere in the United States protested against chattel slavery on moral grounds."
—Jacob Rader Marcus, United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Wayne State University Press, 1990

"Jewish entrepreneurs were engaged in the slave trade on the North American mainland, participating in the famous triangular trade."
—Priscilla Fishman, Jews of the United States, Quadrangle – New York, 1973

"The West India Company, which monopolized imports of slaves from Africa, sold slaves at public auctions against cash payments. It happens that cash was mostly in the hands of Jews. The buyers who appeared at the auctions were almost always Jews, and because of this lack of competitors, they could buy slaves at low prices. On the other hand, there was also no competition in the selling of the slaves to the plantation owners and other buyers ... Profits up to 300 per cent of the purchase value were often realized with high interest rates ... If it happened that the date of such an auction fell on a Jewish holiday the auction had to be postponed...[Jews] dominated the slave trade"
—Arnold Wiznitzer, Jews in Colonial Brazil, Columbia University Press, 1960

"American Jewish merchants, using their religio-commercial connections, enjoyed a competitive advantage over many non-Jews engaged in the same lucrative inter colonial trade. Since the West Indian trade was a necessity to America's economy and since this trade was, in varying degrees, controlled by Jewish mercantile houses, America Jewry was influential in the commercial destiny of Britain's overseas empire...and hence Jewish traders in New York had a marked advantage over others in this West India trade."
—Stanley Feldstein, The Land That I Show You: Three Centuries of Jewish Life in America, Anchor Press, 1978

"Those who succeeded in establishing themselves under Dutch jurisdiction prospered as traders, middlemen, interpreters and brokers of slaves. The West India Company monopolized the import of slaves, but the private entrepreneurs ran the slave auctions. Among these were numerous Jews who also provided the credit that plantation masters needed until the sugar crop was brought in. Considering that the mill owners found it cheaper to replace a slave every seven years than to feed him properly, business was brisk."
—Judith Elkin, The Jewish Presence in Latin America, Allen & Unwin Publishing, 1987

"In the first half of the seventeenth century all the great sugar plantations in Brazil were in the hands of Jews."
—Abram Leon, The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation, 1971

"The first Jews that Poles encountered must certainly have been traders, probably slave traders, of the type called in the 12th-century Jewish sources holekhei rusyah."
—Encyclopedia Judaica, v. 13, pp. 710

"In the tenth century the Spanish Jews often owed their [entire families] wealth to their trade in [European & African] slaves."
—Israel Abrahams, Jewish Life In The Middle Ages (1100-1700), Forgotten Books Publishing, 2012 reprint.

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