FACT CHECK · ANTISEMITIC TROPES: SECRET CONTROL, EPSTEIN/MOSSAD, BLOOD LIBEL, SLAVE TRADE, 109 COUNTRIES
Claim: Jews and the slave trade: what historians said
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Some Jews took part in New World slavery, as merchants and planters, but as a minority. In 1995 the AHA condemned as false any claim of a disproportionate Jewish role in the Atlantic slave trade.
SOURCE
AHA Council resolution, 5 Jan 1995 (historians.org, Perspectives)
historians.org · avalon.law.yale.edu
historians.org · avalon.law.yale.edu
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