THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST OF BLACK PEOPLE

Required Reading

The Truth about the Black holocaust

"three books written to 'refute' it, none of which refuted a single fact "

I fail to see how this book has been targeted as a vessel carrying "racist or anti-Semitic" propaganda. It likely offends certain sensibilities because of the research dug up and documented. Bear in mind that this has less to do with the Nation of Islam than with research and the publishing of those results; the only reference to Islam is the phrase "All Praise is Due to Allah," on the title page.

Furthermore, there is minimal evidence of a victim mentality in the presentation of this information. I fail to see how this could be sloppy scholarship because the hundreds of sources used are catalogued, quoted, extensively commented upon and legitimate. Most of the SECRET RELATIONSHIP'S detractors likely haven't sat down to actually read it and decide for themselves because of their predjudices. In fact, the book that condemns this one gets better advertising.

THE SECRET RELATIONSHIP is about the Jewish involvement in the black African slave trade from the middle ages to Reconstruction after the American Civil War.

Jews were either heavily influential or dominated the New World cash-crop commerce which was the harbinger of slavery in the American colonies. In country after country this is documented: Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, Jamaica, Curacao, Barbados, Hispaniola, the southern American colonies, etc. A disproportionate amount of the financiers of the Dutch India Company and in Newport, Rhodes Island (who funded slave ships and voyages to Africa) were from prominent Jewish families.

During the Civil War most Jews either supported the Confederacy and very few condemned the enslavement of Africans, which they deemed inferior to the light-skinned races. One of the most influential Jews in American history was Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin.

Jews also participated in the Confederates' secret diplomacy with European powers. The final section of the SECRET RELATIONSHIP gives a list of Jews involved in the opression of Africans along with historical and biographical information about them. Once again tradtional Establishment history errs by blaming white Christians as soley responsible for the slave trade. Only 30% of whites/Christians who lived in the south owned black slaves, while 70% of the Jews there did.

Also recommended: THEY WERE WHITE AND THEY WERE SLAVES by Michael Hoffman.

Top Jewish Scholar Confirms Slavery Claims!

Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael

Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael is the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies, Professor of Religion, and Chair, Department of Religion, The College of William and Mary, and a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University. He has been the editor of the quarterly journal, American Jewish History, for 19 years, and a visiting professor at Brown University, the University of Pittsburgh, HUC-JIR, UCLA, and Case Western Reserve University. He came to The College of William and Mary in 1989 after 20 years at Ohio State University. He is the author of many books on Jews and Judaism in America, and his most recent publication (with his wife Linda Schermer Raphael) is When Night Fell: An Anthology of Holocaust Short Stories (Rutgers University Press, 1999). He is now writing Judaism in America for the Contemporary American Series of Columbia University Press. Visit him at the website of his synagoge, Bet Aviv, in Columbia, Maryland.

The following passages are from Dr. Raphael's book Jews and Judaism in the United States a Documentary History (New York: Behrman House, Inc., Pub, 1983), pp. 14, 23-25.

"Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade; indeed, the bylaws of the Recife and Mauricia congregations (1648) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos for each Negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday. In Curacao in the seventeenth century, as well as in the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth century, Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated.

"This was no less true on the North American mainland, where during the eighteenth century Jews participated in the 'triangular trade' that brought slaves from Africa to the West Indies and there exchanged them for molasses, which in turn was taken to New England and converted into rum for sale in Africa. Isaac Da Costa of Charleston in the 1750's, David Franks of Philadelphia in the 1760's, and Aaron Lopez of Newport in the late 1760's and early 1770's dominated Jewish slave trading on the American continent."