IN 1654 CE, the first Jew entered North America from Holland.
He was called Jacob Barsimson and within 10 years he was joined by Jewish traders Hayman Levy, Nicholas Lowe and Joseph Simon among many others.
They began trading cheap materials like beads, glass and textiles from Holland to the indigenous Americans.
Lowe began making rum, whiskey and liquor at distilleries in New Port.
The Jews began selling the alcohol to the Indians and with it the Indians were led into alcoholic debauchery under which they were tricked into owing the Jews. They were then forced to sell their land and possessions such as valuable badger and mink fur to pay their debts for the overpriced alcohol.
This proved a lucrative trade for the Jews and before long they had 22 distilleries in Newport.
The Jews shipped their alcohol to Europe and also West Africa. In West Africa, the Jews initially traded their alcohol, textiles and glass for ivory and gold dust.
After the gold dust and ivory market of West Africa was depleted, the Jews then saw an opportunity in acquiring blacks to sell to the white Americans as slaves.
Tobacco, sugar, rice and cotton were grown in the southern states of America and there was a clear need for labour.
The Jews then went on a campaign to legalise slavery, particularly the slavery of blacks who were then called ‘niggers’.
Prior to 1661 CE, slavery was not in the constitution of America and was prohibited.
But because of efforts by the Jews from Holland who began entering North America less than 10 years before this, slavery would be legalised in 1661 CE.
The white Jews once enslaved blacks during their stay in Babylon (135 CE – 700 CE) and they had made up the myth of Canaan representing blacks in scripture, and his curse being in fact black attributes such as dark skin, large facial features and so on along with servitude to other races.
This was contained in the corrupt book called the Babylonian Talmud which is used by the followers of Judaism.
False as the claim was, the Jews demanded great respect from the other whites who actually believed and continue to believe they are the descendants of biblical Israelites.
Thus the claim of blacks being an inferior people according to scripture was passed around by the Jews.
When writing letters to other whites, the Jews always addressed themselves as the children of Abraham, so as to get credence to carry out their plots and schemes.
With the legalisation of black slavery in the southern states of America, the Jews became more or less the sole traders of blacks from West Africa and set up agencies in Africa to seek out human cargo.
The Jews sold watered down rum from Newport to slave-catchers for blacks with whom they filled their ships and sold on the American slave markets.
Before slavery became a sensitive issue embarrassing to embrace, Jews like Solomon Grayzel wrote books such as The History of the Jews from Babylonian exile to the end of World War 2, in which they praised themselves for being the chief slavers of blacks among many other things.
The trading point in Newport became known as the Jewish Newport Slave Centre of World Commerce.
The Jews made massive profits throughout this period as they procured an average of US$1 200 per slave, after having acquired these slaves in exchange for rum worth a few hundred dollars.
The Jews did this for hundreds of years until abolishment of slavery.
The guilt of the other whites who were being introduced to the chartered enslavement of blacks was spared by the black Canaan myth which was pushed by the white Jews to make it seem lawful and almost dutiful to subjugate blacks.
The Catholic Pope of this period endorsed this false notion of blacks being cursed in scripture.
By the 1700’s CE, no other group in America had money like the Jews of Newport. They were exceedingly wealthy and Jews like Isaac da Costa and Aaron Lopez, who were celebrated slave traders in their time, were behind almost all the trade of blacks into America. Aaron Lopez alone owned well over 50 percent of all the dealings of the ships that sailed to Africa from Newport for slaves.
Newport eventually had 600 ships and 300 of them were Jewish owned, with about 150 of them heading to and from West Africa for slaves. The slaves of America built that nation, its roads, cities and railways with their hands over hundreds of years, without pay or rest.
The blacks also grew the cotton, tobacco, sugar and rice that would be sold by the white Americans to Europe.
Thus Jews had a total role in slavery, though they stayed in the background and engaged and hired non-Jewish white captains and crews to carry out their voyages while they remained in Newport making rum and selling slave grown commodities to Europe.
America got so developed and independent after the beginning of slavery that the nation decided it was strong enough to fight and break away from Britain.
Around the time of the American revolution, President George Washington sought to visit the lucrative Jews of Newport to acknowledge them and commend them for their notable economic activity.
The exclusively Jewish 1st Masonic Lodge founded in 1749 CE and also the King David Masonic lodge that followed, jointly sent an emissary called Moses Seixas to George Washington and passed the following petition: ‘If you will permit the children of Abraham to approach you with a request, to tell you that we honour you and feel an alliance. Until the present time, the valued rights of a free citizen have been withheld. However, we now see a new government coming into being based on the majesty of the people. A government not sanctioning any bigotry of the Jew, rather to concede the freedom of thought, which each (Jewish community) shares, whatever nation or language, as a part of the great government machine.
George Washington, after commending the Jews of Newport for developing the nation’s economy through introducing black slavery, was in return commended by the Jews for allowing them to do as they wished in the country without persecution.
The Jews also asked for a secure place in the government that would come after America’s Independence from Britain.
This petition was granted to them and even before America’s independence, the Jewish community, particularly those in New Port, were no longer under Britain’s jurisdiction, but their own.