Reviews a book that finds that Jews had a minuscule role in the slave trade and played only a minor role as slave owners wherever they resided in the New World
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
560 p, Describes the ways Jews imagined and treated Blacks during the first three centuries of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism. Using many previously unexamined sources, it goes beyond mere inter-ethnic polemics to lay out for the first time the scope of Jewish anti-Blackness in places such as Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Amsterdam and the Caribbean. Readers will see that Jewish attitudes and behavior remained barely distinguishable from general European trends, hardly benign, but far less intense.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
366 p, Publisher's Note: 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. Addall.com; In his book Faber sets out to disprove the allegations that Jews dominated the slave trade and owned slaves in numbers disproportionate to others in the white population
Goldschmidt,Henry (Author) and McAlister,Elizabeth A. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
New York: Oxford University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
338 p, Includes Elizabeth McAlister's "The; Jew in the Haitian imagination: a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism"; John Burdick's "Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil"; and Kate Ramsey's "Legislating 'civilization' in postrevolutionary Haiti"
