Almost 80% of slave owners at the height of American slavery were ethnic Jews. Show this to your lemming friends and family.
“The first two centuries of the Black-Jewish encounter in America were highlighted by a fairly extensive record of Jewish slave holding. Indeed, during the colonial period, in the small Jewish community of the time, almost any Jewish household of any form, North or South, possessed at least one slave” - the Jew, Dr. Abraham Peck
“It would seem realistic to conclude that could afford to own slaves and had need for their services would do so. Jews participated in every aspect and process of the exploitation of the defenseless blacks” - the Jew, Bertram W. Korn.
“Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade, indeed the bylaws of Refice and Mauricia congregations (1648) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos for each negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday. In Curaçao in the 17th century, as well as in the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the 18th century, Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French, British or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated. This was no less true on the American mainland, where during the 18th 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.” - Jews & Judaism in the United States, Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael
“They came with ships carrying African blacks to be sold as slaves... 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 manned by Jewish crews and sailed under Jewish captains.” - New World Jewry 1493 - 1825, Jew Seymour B. Liebman
“In 1820, over 75% of all Jewish families in Charleston, Richmond and Savannah owned slaves employed as domestic servants.“ - the Jew, Jacob Rader Marcus