Jews, slaves, and the slave trade : setting the record straight /
In the wake of the civil rights movement, a great divide has opened up between African American and Jewish communities. What was historically a harmonious and supportive relationship has suffered from a powerful and oft-repeated legend, that Jews controlled and masterminded the slave trade and owned...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©1998.
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Colección: | Reappraisals in Jewish Social & Intellectual History.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Note on spelling and dating
- Introduction
- England's Jewish merchants and the slave trade
- Jews and slaves in seventeenth-century Barbados and Jamaica
- Jews and slavery in Jamaica, 1700-1780
- Jews and slavery in Barbados and Nevis, 1700-1780
- Jews and slaves on the threshold of abolition: Jamaica and Barbados, 1780-1820
- Jewish merchants and slavery in the mainland colonies
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.