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In the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide has opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a harmonious and supportive relationship has suffered from a powerful and oft-repeated legend, that Jews controlled and masterminded the slave trade and owned slaves on a large scale, well in excess of their own proportion in the population. In this groundbreaking book, likely to stand as the definitive word on the subject, Eli Faber cuts through this cloud of mystification to recapture an important chapter in both Jewish and African diasporic history. Focusing on the British empire, Faber assesses the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery through investment in slave trading companies, ownership of slave ships, commercial activity as merchants who sold slaves upon their arrival from Africa, and direct ownership of slaves. His unprecedented original research utilizing shipping and tax records, stock-transfer ledgers, censuses, slave registers, and synagogue records reveals, once and for all, the minimal nature of Jews' involvement in the subjugation of Africans in the Americas. A crucial corrective, Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade lays to rest one of the most contested historical controversies of our time.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade
• Author: Eli Faber
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 386
• EAN: 9780814726389
• ISBN: 0814726380
• ID: 04931149
• Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 689 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 1998

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