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JEWS, JUDAISM AND SLAVERY
Throughout history Jews have been engaged in slavery, slave trading and even selling of slaves. Adding to that the knowledge of Jews involvement i\n trafficking of Women and pornography we get a different pictures of Jews then what they themselves like to give of themselves. Jews like us, non-Jews, to believe they are lovers of humans and great philanthropists. They might be giving money to other Jews and to Jewish courses, but that does NOT make them philanthropists in my book. Neither does that make them lovers of mankind.
Leviticus 25:44-46: “As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property. You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession forever, you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness. “
Genesis 9:25-27: "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers. He also said, 'Blessed be the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. May God extend the territory of Japheth; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave.' "
To follow up quotation from the Bible I quote from 1 Book of Moses (Genesis) about Joseph being sold as a slave by his brothers Ge.37; 28 for 20 silver pieces as a slave. The same Joseph ended up as advisor to the Pharaoh – what else would you expect happened to a Jew in a Jewish fairy story?
This passage was one of the favorite of theologians who wished to justify slavery on Biblical grounds. The descendants of Ham were assumed to be Africans. According to this verse, they were to be slaves forever. Thus the South Carolina slave owner was only implementing God's wishes.
In Roman times the Jews often followed the Roman Army on its conquests and enslaved enemy soldiers and civilians.
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According to the Jewish writer Solomon Grayzel in “A History of the Jews:” “Jews were among the most important slave dealers in European society. Jews were the major ship chandlers in the Caribbean. Jews were expelled from many places for their business practices in this trade. In Curacao in the 17th century and Barbados and Jamaica in the 18th century and in most of the French, British and Dutch colonies the Jews dominated the slave trade or were major traders. When their host country was at war with one of their trading partners the Jews would continue to trade, merely changing the names of their ships as the port of call required.”
Portuguese Jews, who had developed their mastery of the slave trade off the west coast of Africa on the island of Sao Thome where they employed up to 3,000 black slaves. They arrived in Brazil in 1503 and by 1600 the bulk of the slave trade and up to 100 plantations in Brazil, with some 10,000 black slaves, were in the hands of the Jews. In the mid 1600,s slave revolts and war with Portugal caused many Jews to leave for the Caribbean, Amsterdam and New Amsterdam (later New York). Diagram of slaves on ships
Slavery was a major feature of Jewish life in Surinam where slaves, often kept nearly naked and fed only yams and bananas. Slaves were often given away as gifts. By 1730 there were some 1,300 Jews in Surinam, a third of the white population. There were 400 plantations where some 80,000 black slaves toiled. Tortures included flogging, mutilations such as slitting of noses or cutting off ears, hanging and quartering, drowning, starvation and burning alive. Slaves sometimes chose suicide and would swallow their tongues or jump into boiling sugar cane. When the government considered passing a law to idle slaves on the Sabbath the Jews protested saying it would be a “crippling disability”.
The English explorer Captain John Gabriel Stedman wrote in his narrative of his expeditions of witnessing an execution of a slave presided over by a Jew named De Vries in Surinam. The Black man was laid upon a wooden cross with arms and legs expanded and was fastened by ropes and his hand chopped off. Then they: “next took up a heavy iron bar, with which, by repeated blows, he broke his bones to shivers, til the marrow, blood, and splinters flew about the field; but the prisoner never uttered a groan nor a sigh. The ropes being next unlashed, I imagined him dead, and felt happy; till the magistrates stirring to depart, he writhed himself from the cross, when he fell on the grass, and damned them all, as aset of barbarous rascals; at the same time removing his right hand by the help of his teeth, he rested his head on part of the timber, and asked the by-standers for a pipe of tobacco, which was infamously answered by kicking and spitting on him; till I, with some American seamen, thought proper to prevent it. He then begged that his head might be chopped off; but to no purpose. At last, seeing no end to his misery, he declared, "that though he had deserved death, he had not expected to die so many deaths: however, (said he) you Christians have missed your aim at last, and I now care not, were I to remain thus one month longer." After which he sung two extempore songs (with a clear voice) the subjects of which were, to bid adieu to his living friends, and to acquaint his deceased relations that in a very little time he should be with them, to enjoy their company for ever in a better place. This done, he calmly entered into conversation with some gentlemen concerning his trial; relating every particular with uncommon tranquility - "But," said he abruptly, "by the sun it must be eight o'clock; and by any longer discourse I should be sorry to be the cause of your losing your breakfast." Then, casting his eyes on a Jew, whose name was De Vries, "A-propos, sir," said he, "won't you please to pay me the ten shillings you owe me?" "For what to do?" - "To buy meat and drink, to be sure - don't you perceive I am to be kept alive?" Which speech, on seeing the Jew stare like a fool, this mangled wretch accompanied with a loud and hearty laugh. Next, observing the soldier that stood sentinel over him biting occasionally on a piece of dry bread, he asked him "how it came to pass, that he, a white man, should have no meat to eat along with it?" - "Because I am not so rich," answered the soldier. "Then I will make you a present, sir," said the negro; "first, pick my hand that was chopped off clean to the bones, next begin to devour my body, till you are glutted; when you will have both bread and meat, as best becomes you"; which piece of humor was followed by a second laugh; and thus he continued, until I left him, which was about three hours after the dreadful execution. Wonderful it is indeed, that human nature should be able to endure so much torture, which assuredly could only be supported by a mixture of rage, contempt, pride, and the glory of braving his tormentors, from whom he was so soon to escape.”
Stedman wrote: "At Demerary, so late as October, 1789, thirty-two wretches were executed in three days, sixteen of whom suffered in the manner just described, with no less fortitude, and without uttering one single complaint."
The slaves of Surinam revolted between 1690 and 1772 and some 6,000, known as Maroons, escaped into the jungle and waged a guerilla war for over 70 years and were not defeated. Herbert Bloom in his book “The Economic Activities of the Jews of Amsterdam in the 17th and 18th Centuries” said the slave revolted against their plantations and slave masters “especially those in Jewish hands”. The abolition of the slave trade in 1819 brought about the economic decline of the Jewish community.
In Barbados the Jews made up 22% of the white population of 20,000. Jewish business practices (not paying taxes on their slaves or imported items and not serving in the defense of the island) caused the legislature to pass an act in 1679 to limit their commerce in the slave trade. In 1741 on May 7th a special tax was passed for the Jews with the legislature enumerating the reasons for such actions.
"...That the Jews in this island are a very wealthy body, their gains considerable, and acquired with great ease and indolence, and with little risk, and their fortunes so disposed, that the usual methods of laying taxes will not affect them; they are generally concerned in, nay have almost entirely engrossed, the whole retail trade of this island, furnish people with materials of luxury, tempt them to live and dress above their circumstances, carry on a traffic with our slaves greatly prejudicial to the planter and fair trader, encouraging the negroes to steal commodities from their masters, which they sell to or barter with the Jews, at inconsiderable and under values; and, when by such means they have amassed great wealth, they layout their money at interest, by which the public stock is no way increased; and it must ever be against the interest and policy of every country, to encourage the heaping up of such riches among them: That it is in this light the Jews are taxed separately, and not on account of religion or country, nor does the present tax exceed what they have paid forty years ago, when their riches were not so great as they are at present, and their numbers have been daily increasing under a taxation of this sort ever since. . ."
The Jews were in the slave trade on the islands and in the communities of Curacao, Martinique, Nevis, Saint Dominique, Saint Eustatius, Saint Thomas, and others. There were numerous Jewish slave owners in the earliest Jewish communities in America in Rhode Island, Newport and New York. In some Jewish communities in New York Jews would pay their dues to the Synagogue by sending a black slave to clean it. In the south, Jews were heavily engaged in the slave trade. In 1826 the estimated value of slaves in the south was about 300 million dollars. The wealthiest Jewish community in the nation was in Charleston S.C. Jews made up a disproportionate number of slave owners, slave traders and slave auctioneers.
In Los Angeles in 1861 after Secessionists victory in the elections The News accused the Jewish community of voting the Secessionist ticket and was branded anti-Semitic by the Jews for its article. During the speculation in gold papers such as The New York Tribune, Herald, Commercial, Patterson Press, Missouri Republican Chicago Tribune and the Detroit Commercial Advertiser noted that the great majority of those involved in the speculation were of the Jewish race. In 1898 the newspaper Jewish Sentiment editorialized “The laws of nature cannot be reversed by an act of Congress and the white man is not only superior to the black man but will assert his supremacy (sic) at the proper time and in the proper manner.
Estimates vary as to the number of slaves that died transiting to the New World during the centuries of the slave trade. 6-12 million would probably be low.
Would Jews ever give up a good business? Till now Jews have never given up a good business. What they have done are to move the business into hiding when people got on to them. Who Brought the Slaves to America? Today you will find Jews in slave-trading, trafficking of women and lately in illegal trafficking of young boys and girls from Asia to markets in Israel and Europe.
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