Jewish Slave Traders: The Jews, slavery and the slave trade through the centuries

Historically, the Jews were a people of traders, and as such, they often sold human beings.As a starting point for this book, there is the controversy launched by Afro-French comedian Dieudonné in 2014, when he declared: "These people [the Jews] are adept at training niggers; the slave trade used to be a Jewish specialty.” For these remarks, he was sentenced to two months in prison suspended and to pay a fine of 15,000 euros.Yet Dieudonné was right, and the judges were wrong: during the first Atlantic system (in the years 1500-1640), the slave trade was essentially in the hands of the Sephardim. Already during the early Middle Ages, the Jews were the great specialists in the slave trade.In France, you can be sentenced to prison because you have stated a historical truth.This book does not deal only with the triangular trade, since it also speaks of the Slavic slave trade, the eunuch slave trade, the harvest of the steppes, the white slave trade, etc. It covers a historical period stretching from antiquity to the 20th century.It examines the ideological foundations on which Jewish slavery practices rested.You will find there the description of little-known trades exercised by certain Jews (merchants of virgins for the Ottoman harems, fatteners of macarons, etc.).This book also discusses how historians write history, and tend to rewrite it, when it comes to Jewish slavery. Read more