A number of wealthy Jews were also involved in the slave trade in the Americas, some as shipowners who imported slaves and others as agents who resold them. read more
Some Jews were involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, just as many Christian Europeans, local African tribes and Arabs were. Most of the Jews involved were Sephardic Jews whose forefathers had been expelled from Spain and Portugal, and ended up being in the Americas. read more
Jason H. Silverman, a historian of slavery, describes the part of Jews in slave trading in the southern United States as "minuscule", and writes that the historical rise and fall of slavery in the United States would not have been affected at all had there been no Jews living in the American South. read more