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I wasn't taught that slavery was still quite prominent for a long time, even after countries in the New World and Europe outlawed it.
I seem to recall that it was still a "thing" in some African countries up until the 80s. Nowadays, there's a LOT of near-slave labor in the wealthier Arab countries from India, the Philippines, etc. doing things like construction and other menial labor.
The port of Liverpool dominated the transportation aspect.
"Probably three-quarters of all European slaving ships at this period left from Liverpool. Overall, Liverpool ships transported half of the 3 million Africans carried across the Atlantic by British slavers."
The first to reintroduce the slave trade to the West were Muslims. Slavery had been exterminated in Christendom by about 1000 AD, but was rekindled around 1400 AD by Muslim slave traders who provided slave labor to Portuguese sugar plantations off the coast of Afirca.
Normally don't help with homework assignments, but if you looking REAL sources to read you can check out Jack Forbes & especially William Cohen, though they are more college level material.
They both have extensive and excellent bibliographies.
"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.
Jews and Judaism in the United States a Documentary History (New York: Behrman House, Inc., Pub, 1983), pp. 14, 23-25. (Library of Jewish Studies)
"This was no less true on the North American mainland, where during the eighteenth century Jews participated in the 'triangular trade' that brought slaves from Africa to the West Indies and there exchanged them for molasses, which in turn was taken to New England and converted into rum for sale in Africa. Isaac Da Costa of Charleston in the 1750's, David Franks of Philadelphia in the 1760's, and Aaron Lopez of Newport in the late 1760's and early 1770's dominated Jewish slave trading on the American continent."
Rabbi Marc Lee Raphaelis the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies, Professor of Religion, and Chair, Department of Religion, The College of William and Mary, and a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. He has been the editor of the quarterly journal, American Jewish History, for 19 years, and a visiting professor at Brown University, the University of Pittsburgh, HUC-JIR, UCLA, and Case Western Reserve University. He came to The College of William and Mary in 1989 after 20 years at Ohio State University. He is the author of many books on Jews and Judaism in America.
"Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade;
Slavery was a legitimate business, so we expect all sorts to be involved. When slavery was abolished the British government compensated slave owners - very true.
The port of Liverpool dominated the transportation aspect.
"Probably three-quarters of all European slaving ships at this period left from Liverpool. Overall, Liverpool ships transported half of the 3 million Africans carried across the Atlantic by British slavers."
That's quite a few. Thanks for the link, I've never looked at the origins of the ships before. Although when you say America, you should note that the vast majority of Slaves were shipped to Central and South America and the Carribean, you know the British colonies.
That's quite a few. Thanks for the link, I've never looked at the origins of the ships before. Although when you say America, you should note that the vast majority of Slaves were shipped to Central and South America and the Carribean, you know the British colonies.
Not to mention Cuba, Haiti, what is now the Dominican Republic and Brazil. Spanish, French and Portugese colonies.
Jewish control of the slave trade?!? Ah, the smell of Stormfront in the morning.
Interesting list compiled by guessing the religious and ethnic background based upon the names. Take James De Wolf of the Rhode Island De Wolfs, considered the most prominent slaver in American history. De Wolf and Dutch American was not only NOT Jewish, he was an Episcopalian a member and benefactor of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church. Another major American slaver was John Carter Brown - hardly a Jewish name - namesake of Brown University was a Baptist.
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