Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Immigrants & Minorities
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,2 (1993) 113-125
Keywords:
Slave trade History
;
African Americans History
;
Jews History 1500-
;
Jews History 1500-
;
Jews History
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
In response to recent assertions made in the U.S. that Jews played a principal role in the slave trade, contends that at the time when the Atlantic slave trade began, at the end of the 15th century, most of the Jews of Western Europe were forcibly expelled toward Eastern Europe. The American slave trade was initiated by Portugal and Spain, and continued by England and France: it was state-sponsored and dominant in countries with no Jewish population. Portuguese Conversos were prohibited from settling overseas; as for their descendants, only the Inquisition and racists can argue that the relatively few New Christian slave traders were Jews. In Holland, Jews were prohibited from buying slaves in Africa; therefore, there was no major Jewish presence in the Dutch slave trade. States that Jews can only be blamed, as can everyone else, for possessing plantations and owning slaves in colonial America.
Note:
Appeared also in his "From Slavery to Freedom" (1999) and in "Strangers & Neighbors; Relations between Blacks & Jews in the United States" (1999) 105-115.
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