Jewish participation in Black slave trade To the Americas

Jewish participation in

Black slave trade

To the Americas

The following passages are from the book of Dr. Raphael Jews and Judaism in the United States: A Documentary History (New York: Behrman House, Inc., Pub, 1983), pp. 14, 23-25.

"Jews also participated actively in the Dutch colonial slave trade, and the statutes of the congregations of Recife and Mauricia (1648) included an imposition of five soldiers for each black slave, a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company In the seventeenth century , As well as in the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth century, Jewish merchants played an important role in the slave trade. In all American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British or Dutch, Jewish merchants dominated frequently.

This was no less true in the North American continent, where during the eighteenth century the Jews participated in the "triangular trade" that brought slaves from Africa to the West Indies and exchanged them for molasses, which in turn was brought to New England and Isaac Da Costa of Charleston in 1750, David Franks of Philadelphia in the 1760s, and Aaron Lopez of Newport in the late 1760s and early 1770s dominated the slave trade in the Americas.