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Other than war, no institution of recorded history has violated more human rights, caused
more deaths, more suffering than that of slavery.
Although slavery still exists in parts of Africa and
some other remote parts of the globe, the last great trafficking in human slaves occurred
in bringing Africans to the New World beginning in the early
16th Century and flourishing up until the middle years
of the19th century. The most egregious, cruel and murderous aspect
of this period was the transatlantic slave trade often called the middle passage. Scholarly
studies of the loss of life during the transportation of slaves to the Americas suggest that between
7 and 10 million Africans suffered indescribable cruelty and perished in the middle passage.
The human suffering and death from the African slave trade is the cornerstone of White guilt
both in America and around the world and has been tirelessly promoted by both academic
and popular media. The film Amistad by Steven Spielberg is the cinematic standard of films
about the slave trade and a more recent treatment is the film Amazing Grace.
Amistad carefully portrays the slave trade as a Christian European-American enterprise.
It has terribly unflattering portrayals of American leaders, the Queen of Spain and conspicuously
Christian slave traders, as well as numerous images of Christian crosses accompanied by
scenes of horrific treatment of Black slaves. Before Amistad though, In 1992,
the Nation of Islam caused tremendous controversy when it published the book, The Secret Relationship
between Blacks and Jews. It quoted prominent Jewish historians who claimed that the African
Slave trade, and indeed slavery in the West for the last 2 thousand years was thoroughly
dominated by the Jewish community. Fifteen years before the publication of the Secret
Relationship, earlier I appeared on the largest Black talkshow in America and for the first
time exposed the issue before a national audience. As strange as it might seem to some of you,
in spite of my politics, I had a role in setting in motion the rising Black awareness of the
issue. Five years after The Secret Relationship,
Amistad was perhaps a remedial effort to put the genie back in the bottle. Amistad was
set in a thoroughly Christian New England. The actual center of the American slave trade
was in New England at Newport, Rhode Island. It was no minor coincidence that Newport had
America’s oldest synagogue was home of the largest thriving Jewish community in the colonies.
Although Spielberg portrayed the horrific slave trade as a thoroughly Christian affair,
with not a Jew in sight, here are the words of the major Jewish history of the early Americas
called, New World Jewry, fourteen ninety two to seventeen seventy six,
by S.B. Liebman of the American Jewish Historical Society. He wrote about those who owned and
manned the ships, the perpetrators of this mass human cruelty and ***. Quote:
They came with ships carrying African blacks to be sold as slaves. The traffic in slaves
was a royal monopoly, and the Jews were often appointed as agents for the Crown in their
sale....[They] were the largest ship chandlers in the entire Caribbean region, where the
shipping business was mainly a Jewish enterprise....The ships were not only owned by Jews, but were
manned by Jewish crews and sailed under the command of Jewish captains.
Here’s how I came to discuss the Jewish slave trade on Black Perspectives. In the
late 60s I became acquainted with a slave trade researcher by the name of Walter White.
He wrote a short booklet called Who Brought the Slaves to America. I contacted him and
began doing my own research into the slave trade. I read all the official Jewish histories
pertaining to it. I have followed the issue for over 25 years now, scanning official Jewish
general histories on the subject, often published by Jewish historical societies.
These were histories written by Jews for Jews. Here are some direct quotes of the leading
Jewish historians writing about the African slave trade. . Remember you can find all the
academic citations in my books My Awakening and Jewish Supremacism.
Prominent Jewish historian, Marc Raphael, in his book Jews and Judaism in the United
States: A Documentary History wrote: “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. 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 1750s, David Franks of Philadelphia in the 1760s,
and Aaron Lopez of Newport in the late 1760s and early 1770s
dominated Jewish slave trading on the American continent.”
Jewish historians record old Jewish documents showing how the slave trade was so thoroughly
Jewish that slave auctions throughout the Americas had to close on Jewish holidays.
Brazil received far more African Slaves than North America. A. Wiznitzer. another official
in Jewish historical societies, in his book, Jews in Colonial Brazil pages seventy two
and 73. wrote: …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.....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. 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, Jews
dominated the slave trade in the Western World for the last 2,000 years, even back to Roman
times. Funk and Wagnall’s Jewish Encyclopedia in
volume 10 page 48 writes: “The trade in slaves constituted the main
source of livelihood for the Roman Jews….” To show how widespread the Jewish slave trade
was, and how influential Jews seduced authorities centuries ago just as they do in modern America
and around the world, in the 5th century, Pope Gelasius permitted Jews to introduce
slaves from Gaul into Italy, on the condition that they were non-Christian. In the 8th
century, Charlemagne (king 768-814) 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 Publications Society of America,
the author writes very emphatically on page 312: quote
"Jews were among the most important slave dealers [in European society]."
Here is a quote from the famous Jewish historian, Jacob Marcus, on Jewish history in the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. Marcus matter-of-factly remarks about the Jewish control of commerce in the
Middle Ages. In the dark ages the commerce of western Europe
was largely in his [the Jew’s] hand, in particular the slave trade. . . . Marcus,
J. (1952). Jews. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 13. p.57.
It should also be pointed out that not only were Jews the principal slave traders, they
had a markedly higher per capita holding of slaves than non-Jews.
Jacob Marcus wrote in United States Jewry , 1776-1985,
page 586, "All through the eighteenth century, into
the early nineteenth, Jews in the North were to own black servants…In 1820, over 75 percent
of all Jewish families in Charleston, Richmond, and Savannah owned slaves, employed as domestic
servants; almost 40 percent of all Jewish householders in the United States owned one
slave or more..." United States Jewry, 1776-1985 (Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 1989), p. 586. The actual fact is that even in the South
less than 5 percent of White people owned slaves. Less than 2 percent of Whites owned
slaves in all of pre-Civil War America, while 40 percent of Jewish Householders owned slaves.
Notice how only guilt ascribed for slavery even though Jews were 2,000 percent more likely
to own Black slaves than was any Gentile White person.
When I broached some of these facts on Black Perspectives on the News, the host was fascinated.
We also discussed White and Black relations in a friendly discussion that helped to enlighten
Black people on the true thinking of White Americans on issues concerning them. I simply
quoted prominent Jewish historians literally boasting to their fellow Jews about their
historic domination of the slave trade. The underlying question is why is there a collective
White guilt assigned for the slave trade but no collective Jewish guilt? Why aren’t African
Americans or anyone else allowed to know who the primary perpetrators of the slave trade
were? After the show was taped, perhaps the most
blatant suppression of free speech in the history of broadcasting then occurred.
The Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish organizations discovered that I had documented
the dominant Jewish role in the American slave trade. They were desperate to prevent this
historical truth reaching a wide audience. Jewish leaders, Sol Rosen, Harry Bass, and
Peter Minchuck filed for an injunction in the Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia, asking
the judge to block the program. The Jewish judge, Stanley Greenberg, then ordered that
the program not be aired unless he “approved” it.
It would take more than a man to lead the slaves from bondage. It would take a God.