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[–] Chiefpacman [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Groups of Jews began to arrive in Surinam in the middle of the seven-teenth century, after the Portuguese regained control of northern Brazil. By 1694, twenty-seven years after the British had surrendered Surinam to the Dutch, there were about 100 Jewish families and fifty single Jews there, or about 570 persons. They possessed more than forty estates and 9,000 slaves, contributed 25,905 pounds of sugar as a gift for the building of a hospital, and carried on an active trade with Newport and other colonial ports. By 1730, Jews owned 115 plantations and were a large part of a sugar export business which sent out 21,680,000 pounds of sugar to European and New World markets in 1730 alone.

They basically Dutch Atlantic trade. That's about 33 pounds of sugar for every human alive at that time, with the estimate of about 700 million people.

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[–] 0110001111 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Ironic that Jews berate white people for the slave trade, only to find out they were possibly the largest owners of slaves in that time period. Having a slave at the time was expensive, to the tune of thousands, and you still needed to give it food, housing, shelter. Not only that, slave ownership at the time meant transference of liability, so you became liable for your slaves' actions. If he broke something, or god knows what, it was all on you to pay for it and make amends. Most important of all, it was white, non Jewish people who went to war to free these slaves. Funny how none of these points are ever mentioned in history classes.