Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight (Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History) (0814726380) - Reviews and Prices
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Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight (Reappraisals in Jewish Social and Intellectual History) (0814726380) - Reviews and Prices
A conclusive reassessment of the long-standing controversy over Jewish involvement in the slave trade. Focusing on the British empire, historian Eli Faber's extensive research reveals minimal involvement in the subjugation of Africans by Jews in the Americas. Faber lays to rest one of the most contested historical controversies of our time.
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Muslims were prominent in the slave trade, not Jews:
It's pretty nervy for the Nation of Islam to go on about Jewish involvement in the slave trade. Most Jews that participated in the African trade were slaves themselves, either to the Portuguese or the Muslims (the Portuguese called these people the "lançados"), and were usually used to keep the books. The biggest slavers - the people who went into the African interior for centuries to capture slaves for sale, were Muslims. In fact, it's mainly in the Islamic countries that slavery, especially the... more info
Not a balanced look at the African slave trade:
The author used only English sources. This severely limits the insights which might be gained by also looking at the Dutch and French involvement in the African slave trade. The Dutch were heavily involved in the early African slave trade with the French and English following.
Western slaves traded traveling to Africa in the 1600's found a flourishing slave trade run in large part by Islamic traders from the Ummayad through Ottoman Islamic empire. The Koran expressly embraces slavery. Remember that the Koran is supposed to be the DIRECT word of GOD. Mohammed left many rules for slaveholders. Slavery was not abolished in Saudi Arabia until 1964. See the Segal book for documentation of this information. In what is called the New World the Aztecs, Incans and many native American... more info
Jewish religious view of Slavery:
On January 15th, 1861 in New York a leading rabbi and member of B'nai B'rith, @Rabbi Morris J. Raphail caused a national sensation when he publicly asserted that the Hebrew Bible sanctions slavery:
If we consult Sacred Scripture, Noah, who, in Genesis ix. 25, curses the descendants of his son Ham, by saying they should be Evved Avadim, the "meanest of slaves." I am therefore justified when tracing slavery as far back as it can be traced, I arrive at the conclusion, that the oldest relation of society with... more info
