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Quote:Dutch rabbi : Jews were deeply involved in slave trade
In Dutch Guyana, 40 Jewish-owned plantations were home to at least 5,000 slaves
An outspoken Dutch rabbi is about to publish a book reminding Dutch Jews of their ancestors’ deep involvement in the slave trade.
“Money was earned by Jewish communities in South America, partly through slavery, and went to Holland, where Jewish bankers handled it,” Rabbi Lody van de Kamp told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “Non-Jews were also complicit, but so were we. I feel partly complicit.”
Van de Kamp, 65, is among the best-known Orthodox rabbis in the Netherlands, being the author of several books on Dutch Jewry and making frequent media appearances.
His forthcoming book, a historical novel entitled “The Jewish Slave,” follows an 18th-century Jewish merchant and his black slave as they investigate Dutch-owned plantations north of Brazil in the hope of persuading Jews to divest from the slave trade. In researching the book, van de Kamp discovered data that shocked him.
According to the JTA report, published Tuesday by The Times of Israel, in one area of what used to be Dutch Guyana, 40 Jewish-owned plantations were home to a total population of at least 5,000 slaves, he says. Known as the Jodensavanne, or Jewish Savannah, the area had a Jewish community of several hundred before its destruction in a slave uprising in 1832. Nearly all of them immigrated to Holland, bringing their accumulated wealth with them.
At one point, Jews controlled about 17 percent of the Caribbean trade in Dutch colonies
I never learned in school that Jews had such a large role in the African slave trade.
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They've part in everything nasty. Deport them dutch and jew all to Africa, without permission to leave for a thousand generations.
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(Dec 19, 2018, 08:45 am)dueda Wrote: They've part in everything nasty. Deport them dutch and jew all to Africa, without permission to leave for a thousand generations.
That wouldn't be fair to ill88eagle.
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They pretty much assimilated to make money.
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(Dec 19, 2018, 08:52 am)politux Wrote: (Dec 19, 2018, 08:45 am)dueda Wrote: Deport them dutch and jew all to Africa.
That wouldn't be fair to ill88eagle.
Deport him with all black Ghanaian population to the Netherlands, it'll have plenty of room after getting rid of the locals.
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17%? A fair amount for a nomadic mercantile tribe forbidden to participate in 'respectable' trades and in places like the Pale were essentially forced into alcohol production (drugs), loan sharking (banking), and slave trading.
Slave traders were considered a despicable class, even in slave states. I have primary documents from that era that showed how they often lost court cases defending their 'property'. In slave states.
At 17%, I am amzed how the number is so low.
Little known is that the original slaves in North America were indians, Irish, and the occasioanl Dutchman who wandered too far south from the Hudson. The person who introduced Black Slavery into the US was John Rolfe, the husband of Pocohontas.
Her tribe was notorious for murdering and enslaving neitghboring tribes.
Alot of those original slaves ere actually educated servants of Dutch officials (and even administrators themselves) who ran afoul of their bosses.
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