What was the extent of Jewish involvement in the transatlantic slave trade?
>inb4 "muh /pol/"
Sure, but can you just answer the question?
>>904123
Negligible really. At it's height the TAST was taking place at a time when Jewish migrants to America were seeking religious freedom or a fresh start. Any Jews that had wealth or land in Europe had no reason to leave really. As far as Jewish slaveowners, some definitely did exist but like black slaveowners they were the exception not the rule
Jews and Judaism in the United States: A Documentary History (New York: Behrman House, Inc., Pub, 1983), pp. 14, 23-25.
"Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade; indeed, the bylaws of the Recife and Mauricia congregations (1648) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos for each Negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday. In Curacao in the seventeenth century, as well as in the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth century, Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated.
>>904150
>leave
One doesn't have to move to America to profit off of the slave trade. This doesn't really answer the question at all, I'm not asking about Jewish immigration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tfDcyODfUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaPKAvsGJoM
>>904287
>David Duke
kek
>>904813
That's Dr. David Duke to you.
