Jews' Role in the Slave Trade
Now, of all people, a Jewish feminist historian named
Natalie Zemon Davis has written a book on a subject which has up until now
been strictly off limits to historians and scholars–Jews and their role in the
slave trade and in slave ownership. Davis uses as her starting point the life
and times of one Jewish physician who also made big bucks (or in his case, big
guilders) in the slave trade during the 18th century, David Isaac Cohen Nassy,
a resident and merchant prince of the Dutch colony in Surinam in South
America, where tens of thousands of black African slaves lived and toiled in
the sugar cane fields and the steaming, fever and snake-infested jungles under
conditions that made a plantation in Virginia or domestic service in
Massachusetts look like paradise. According to an
article in The Jewish Forward [ See under. The original link is broken -
Editor ], the largest and most prestigious Jewish
newspaper in America, “…Nassy was not an anomaly. Of the hundreds of
Portuguese and Dutch settlers who traveled to the small plot of land just
north of Brazil, almost a third were Jewish. And almost all had slaves.
Surinam provided a choice example to exhibit this intermixing — if not for the
abundant paper trail that Nassy left behind, then for the sheer exoticism of
the place…Sephardic Jews from Portugal had lived on the land and were some of
the colony’s first owners of slave-run sugar plantations. By the early 18th
century, when Nassy lived…Jews were also granted autonomy and maintained their
own legal system and militia, whose largest task involved capturing runaway
slaves called maroons.” In other words, the Dutch colonial authorities
contracted the lucrative racket of “slave-catching” to the Jews. The connection between Jews and slavery was known even prior
to the Civil War, and it is interesting to note that the Jews, as always, were
on the side that could make them the quickest buck. One of the major advocates
of slavery in the South was “Major” Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851.) He was
considered the most distinguished Jewish layman in his time. He was such a
prolific proponent of slavery, that the first negro periodical, The Freedom
Journal, was launched in response to Noah’s activities, including “To
emancipate the slaves would be to jeopardize the safety of the whole country.”
The Freedom Journal called Noah the black man’s “bitterest enemy” and William
Lloyd Garrison, the leading White abolitionist, called him the “lineal
descendant of the monsters who nailed Jesus to the cross.” (From the banned
book: The Secret History of
Blacks and Jews) [ But you never get a hint of this from reading the
Wikipedia's article
on the man - Editor
] The annual Report of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society for the year 1853 stated: The American and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society Report of 1853 “The Jews of the United States have never taken any
steps whatever with regard to the slavery question. As citizens, they deem it
their policy to have every one choose which ever side he may deem best to
promote his own interests and the welfare of his country. They have no
organization of an ecclesiastical body to represent their general views; no
General Assembly, or its equivalent. The American Jews have two newspapers,
but they do not interfere in any discussion which is not material to their
religion. It cannot be said that the Jews have formed any denominational
opinion on the subject of American slavery….The objects of so much mean
prejudice and unrighteous oppression as the Jews have been for ages, surely
they, it would seem, more than any other denomination, ought to be the enemies
of caste, and friends of universal freedom.” [ The report exists but not on
line. See
Blacks and Jews Quotes and Facts gives the same quotation as Doctor Duke - Editor ] Jewish attorney and historian Seymour B. Liebman has
written: “They came with ships carrying African blacks to be sold as slaves.
The traffic in slaves was a royal monopoly, and the Jews were often appointed
as agents for the Crown in their sale….[They] were the largest ship chandlers
in the entire Caribbean region, where the shipping business was mainly a
Jewish enterprise….The ships were not only owned by Jews, but were manned by
Jewish crews and sailed under the command of Jewish captains.” [
New World Jewry: 1493-1825, Requiem for the Forgotten (KTAV, New York, 1982), pp. 170,
183.] Essentially, the infamous “Middle Passage” was largely a
Jewish racket. The Jews owned the ships and Liebman notwithstanding, it was
assorted Gentiles sailed in them and took all the risks from storms, African
tribesmen, slave revolts on board, and the terrible fevers of the
disease-ridden West African tropics. The Jews handled the sale once the
negroes had arrived in the Americas, usually the West Indies or Cuba or
Surinam or Brazil. (The actual importation of blacks right off the boat from
Africa into the thirteen British colonies was comparatively rare; most
American slaves came from Cuba or the West Indies and had already been slaves
for several generations when they arrived here. Importation of foreign slaves
into the United States was outlawed by Congress in 1808.) The truth is out there about the origins of American
slavery. The big question is “How long will the Jewish role in slavery be
hidden?”
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By
Jeff Davis
August 27th, 2006
The “official” history of slavery seems to deviate little
from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or the latest propaganda film from Steven Spielberg.
People are left to assume that White Christians were involved in the most evil
part of slavery, the shipping of slaves. The truth is that Christian nations
were repelled at the cruelty associated with the importation of slaves and
that was the first part of slavery outlawed by Christian nations. The one
people who controlled and profited the most from shipping Blacks as if they
were cattle, packing as many as possible onto slave ships were the Jews.
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The Jews' role in slaving will be hidden as long as
they can control the media.
A Star Historian Opens a New Chapter
- Jewish Slaveowners
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Twelve years and three books later, she is finally
returning to this “interesting and troubling” character as she begins her next
quest — to uncover the life of this Jewish physician and slave-owner in
Suriname, a former Dutch colony in South America.......
Indeed Nassy was not an anomaly. Of the hundreds of Portuguese and Dutch settlers who traveled to the small plot of land just north of Brazil, almost a third were Jewish. And almost all had slaves. Suriname provided a choice example to exhibit this intermixing — if not for the abundant paper trail that Nassy left behind, then for the sheer exoticism of the place.........
Suriname, now an independent state, was established as a Dutch colony in the 17th century after the Portuguese had pushed the Dutch out of Brazil. Sephardic Jews from Portugal had lived on the land and were some of the colony’s first owners of slave-run sugar plantations. By the early 18th century, when Nassy lived, the Dutch and Portuguese were joined by a group of new immigrants: Germans and British. Jews were also granted autonomy and maintained their own legal system and militia, whose largest task involved capturing runaway slaves called maroons.
Another wrinkle that has proved of interest to
scholars is the fact that Jewish settlers often converted their slaves to
Judaism — raising another issue that Davis hopes to tackle in her book: How were
black Jews treated by their white Jewish owners?
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Did Jews care
about human rights? Not really.
Black Guilt
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We did not start the slave trade in Africa. It was thriving long before we got
near the place. Buying them from blacks and exporting them to somewhere nicer in
America was major trading. Jews were heavily involved even if they did not have
de facto monopolies. See
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews on the point. That was written
by Tony Martin, a black man.
Alex Kurtagić,
who wrote this article reads as fair minded. His reference are genuine.
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George Orwell said:-
I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate
and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of
the idea that history could be truthfully written. This article
is counter propaganda and truth.
Mordecai Manuel Noah
QUOTE
Mordecai Manuel Noah (July 14, 1785,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,- May 22, 1851,
New York)
was an American
playwright,
diplomat,
journalist,
and utopian.
Born in a family of
Portuguese
Sephardic ancestry;
he was the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence.
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The Wiki does not bother to tells us that he was big, big, big in slaving. The
truth comes down the line when the agenda requires it.