Jewish Involvement in Slave Trade History

Historians record old Jewish documents showing how the slave trade was so

thoroughly Jewish. The slave auctions throughout the

Americas had to close on Jewish

holidays.

Brazil received far more African slaves than North America.

Abe Witzner, another official of the Jewish Historical

Society, in his book

Jews in Colonial Brazil, pages 72 and 73, wrote, quote,

"The buyers who appeared at the auctions were almost always Jews,

and because of their lack of competitors, they could buy slaves

at low prices. If it happened that the date of such an auction fell

on a Jewish holiday, the auction had to be postponed."

Studying the Jewish histories of the New World, I began to learn of a carefully

recorded Jewish history that you and I are not permitted to know about.

I discovered that many centuries before the transatlantic slave

trade, that Jews had dominated the slave trade in

the entire

Western world for the last two thousand years, even as

far back as Roman times. Funk & Wagnalls Jewish Encyclopedia,

Volume

10, page 48, writes, quote, "The trade in slavery

constituted the main source of livelihood for the Roman

Jews." In the fifth century, Pope Gelasius permitted Jews to introduce

slaves from Gaul into Italy on the condition that they were

non-Christian. In the eighth century, Charlemagne

explicitly allowed the Jews to act as intermediaries in the

slave trade. In a history of the Jews from Babylonian

exile to the end of World War II, published by the Jewish

Publication Society of America, the author writes,

quote, "The Jews were among the most important slave

dealers in

European society." And here's a quote from the famous Jewish

historian Jacob

Marcus in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

He matter-of-factly talks about the Jewish control of commerce in the Middle Ages.

Quote, "In the Dark Ages, the commerce of Western Europe

was largely in

his hand, in particular the slave trade."

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