Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight - Couverture souple

Faber, Eli

 
9780814726396: Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0814726399 ISBN 13 : 9780814726396
Editeur : New York University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Lays to rest the controversial myth of Jewish involvement in the slave trade

In the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a harmonious and supportive relationship suffered from a powerful and oft-repeated legend, that Jews controlled and masterminded the slave trade and owned slaves on a large scale, well in excess of their own proportion in the population.

In this groundbreaking book, likely to stand as the definitive word on the subject, Eli Faber cuts through this cloud of mystification to recapture an important chapter in both Jewish and African diasporic history.

Focusing on the British empire, Faber assesses the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery through investment in slave trading companies, ownership of slave ships, commercial activity as merchants who sold slaves upon their arrival from Africa, and direct ownership of slaves. His unprecedented original research utilizes shipping and tax records, stock-transfer ledgers, censuses, slave registers, and synagogue records. These materials reveal, once and for all, the minimal nature of Jews' involvement in the subjugation of Africans in the Americas.

A crucial corrective, Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade lays to rest one of the most contested historical controversies of our time.

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À propos de l?auteur

The late Eli Faber was Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, and author of A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1828, the first volume in the five-volume The Jewish People in America.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814726399
ISBN 13 
9780814726396
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
386
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780814726389: Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0814726380 ISBN 13 :  9780814726389
Editeur : New York University Press, 1998
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