Your opening sentiments about Jews and slavery are both right and wrong. Jews were not the driving ******* behind slavery in America, you are correct. Another member posted that statement in another thread but deleted it before I could club that batting practice fastball into the upper deck. Jewish slave owners accounted for around 1.25% of all slave owners at any given time in the US. However, Jewish slave owners were represented in larger numbers in Curacao, Suriname, and Brazil, although the numbers in Brazil cannot be accurately quantified because many of the Jews in Brazil were "crypto Jews" or "Conversos" as a result of the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula and the Inquisition.