Another day, another violence-inciting, fake fact about Jews. Getting tired of the internet being over saturated with these.
not only did Jews own all the slaves, they also owned all of the boats used to transfer slaves AND sold all the slaves to others. because yknow. the Jews™️
The worst thing about this conspiracy theory is that it’s completely mathematically impossible. To believe it you have to be either really stupid or really racist. Or both.
To quote noted white antebellum fighter of racism and antisemitism Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain “There’s 3 kinds of lies, damn lies and statistics.”
It also hugely ignores how slavery heavily influenced the development of Christianity in the United States, which pretty much from the jump was having to grapple with the concept of other human beings being treated as a permanent slave class and yet still being human beings with souls that allegedly Jesus had saved.
Ex: it was a point of tension in colonial Williamsburg whether one should or should not attempt to convert slaves to Christianity. The faction that was for it believed that it would make them better slaves because Christians were inherently better, more obedient and less vice-driven people. The affection that was against it pointed out that there are multiple passages in the Christian Bible that indicate Christians should never keep each other Christians as slaves and that it is morally wrong to enslave a Christian, therefore converting a slave to Christianity essentially means one has to free them. This was all going on WELL before the United States was even a possibility to anyone.
This also meant we got further levels of divergence between northern and southern Christianity as the North became more solidly made of free states and the South clung harder to the institution of slavery (this is not to say primarily Northern Christian denominations never were involved in slavery, Tituba was enslaved by a puritan in Salem after all, they just more firmly split on the point). US Chattel Slavery is VERY heavily entwined with Christianity and the development of Christianity in the US.
