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The following Jews were known dealers, owners, shippers or supporters
of
the slave trade and of the enslavement of Black African citizens in
early New York history.

Issack Asher
Jacob Barsimson
Joseph Bueno
Solomon Myers Cohen
Jacob Fonseca
Aberham Franckfort
Jacob Franks
Daniel Gomez
David Gomez
Isaac Gomez
Lewis Gomez
Mordecai Gomez
Rebekah Gomez
Ephraim Hart
Judah Hays
Harmon Hendricks
Uriah Hendricks
Uriah Hyam
Abraham Isaacs
Joshua Isaacs
Samuel Jacobs
Benjamin S. Judah
Cary Judah
Elizabeth Judah
Arthur Levy
Eleazar Levy
Hayman Levy
Isaac H. Levy
Jacob Levy
Joseph Israel Levy
Joshua Levy
Moses Levy
Uriah Phillips Levy
Isaac R. Marques
Moses Michaels
(E)Manuel Myers
Seixas Nathan
Simon Nathan
Rodrigo Pacheco
David Pardo
Isaac Pinheiro
Rachel Pinto
Morris Jacob Raphall
Abraham Sarzedas
Moses Seixas
Solomon Simpson
Nathan Simson
Simja De Torres
Benjamin Wolf
Alexander Zuntz

Jewish Role in Slavery: Quotes from Jewish historians
Moshe Kahan stated bluntly that in 1653-1658, "Jewish-Marrano
merchants were in control of the Spanish and Portuguese [slave] trade,
were almost in control of the Levantine trade...were interested in the
Dutch East and West Indian companies, were heavily involved in
shipping; and, most important, had at their disposal large amounts of
capital."
Lee M. Friedman, a one-time president of the American Jewish
Historical Society, wrote that in Brazil, where most of the Africans
actually went, "the bulk of the slave trade was in the hands of Jewish
settlers."
Herbert I. Bloom wrote that "the slave trade was one of the most
important Jewish activities here (in Surinam) as elsewhere in the
colonies." He even published a 1707 list of Jewish buyers by name with
the number of Black humans they purchased.
Cecil Roth, writer of 30 books and hundreds of articles on Jewish
history, wrote that the slave revolts in parts of South America "were
largely directed against [Jews] as being the greatest slave-holders of
the region."
Seymour B. Liebman in his New World Jewry, made it clear that "[t]he
ships were not only owned by Jews, but were manned by Jewish crews and
sailed under the command of Jewish captains."
In Brazil, where most black slaves were sent, Jewish scholar Arnold
Wiznitzer is most explicit about Jewish involvement:
"Besides their important position in the sugar industry and in tax
farming, [Jews] dominated the slave trade. From 1636 to 1645 a total
of 23,163 Negro slaves arrived from Africa and were sold for 6,714,423
florins. The West India Company, which monopolized imports of slaves
from Africa, sold slaves at public auctions against cash payment. It
happened that cash was mostly in the hands of Jews. The buyers who
appeared at the auctions were almost always Jews, and because of this
lack of competitors they could buy slaves at low prices. On the other
hand, there also was no competition in the selling of the slaves to
the plantation owners and other buyers, and most of them purchased on
credit payable at the next harvest in sugar. Profits up to 300 percent
of the purchase value were often realized with high interest
rates....If it happened that the date of such an auction fell on a
Jewish holiday the auction had to be postponed. This occurred on
Friday, October 21, 1644."



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