Timeline for Jewish Slave Owners in the United States
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| Jul 9, 2017 at 0:30 | comment | added | Robert Affinity | I think you may be misunderstanding what he meant. | |
| Jun 9, 2015 at 11:32 | comment | added | two sheds | Rodriguez's sentence has been taken out of context. When he says "THEY represent a very tiny percentage of the 20,000 Jews residing in the antebellum South," he is referring to those "few Jews [who] became prominent slaveowning planters." That is, 25% of Jewish households may have owned slaves, but very few Jewish households owned enough slaves to run a plantation. This is because Jews generally lived in urban areas, and so most Jewish slaveowners had only one or two domestic slaves. [Source: I found all this in Korn's work while researching my answer above] | |
| May 11, 2015 at 17:03 | comment | added | Joël | Yes, and also 100% of the jewish assassins are assassins, and 100% of the black rapists are rapists, etc. No one has denied here your figure of 25% of jews in the south owning slaves, and you're right that the sentence of Rodriguez you quote is plainly false.But the point is that 25% is not a meaningful figure because jews in the south were very few, almost inexistent: 20000, that is less than 0.2% of the jews worldwide. Also, at that time Jews constituted about 2% of the population of Europe/America, but only about 0.36% (20000 out of 5.5 millions) of the total white population of the south. | |
| May 11, 2015 at 11:44 | comment | added | two sheds | My answer shows that similar percentages of Christian and Jewish households in the South owned slaves. That's the relevant comparison, and it shows that Duke's point is wrong. | |
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| May 11, 2015 at 6:09 | history | answered | Derekbrown60 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |