Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom and Revenge

by Edward Kritzler

the vilest Guinea black.”

does this refer to a PERSON?

New Seville of Gold was now known simply as New Seville. The anticipated flow of the precious metal turned out to be a trickle, and most of the sixty thousand Indians who had greeted Columbus were dead.

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Wherever men gathered, the talk was the same—tales of opulent cities with riches beyond belief and beautiful naked maidens aching to please.

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Even as Hernando spoke of this maleficent deed, a rumor spread in the court: A fleet of seventy ships from the New World had arrived at the Spanish port of Laredo with ten thousand Amazon women on board, hungry for Spanish men to father their children.

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The law barred New Christians from a growing list of professions, and even parts of Spain. To discourage escape, conversos were not permitted to sell their land or exchange promissory notes or bills of exchange.

Jewish faith is intolerable to the point of forced conversion of Jews, but the state still requires them to play the role of an exploitable underclass.

Moreover, its location ensured an unlimited supply of slave labor.

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During New Holland’s existence, the Company transported 26,000 slaves to Brazil.

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Over the course of the next two centuries, this number increased a thousandfold, and the slave trade spread to every New World colony and involved every European nation that had an oceangoing ship. Along the West African coast, men from Sweden, France, Denmark, Portugal, Germany, Holland, England, and Spain sailed slave ships and manned the slave forts.

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While the Arabs controlled the East African slave trade,

hadn't heard of this! is no part of africa safe from plunder??

Africans sold Africans to Europeans to serve other Europeans.

this sounds like an oversimplification of the business

With its silver mountain and gangs of Indian slaves, who kept the mine working nonstop, Potosí was a surreal combination of California during the gold rush and Pharaoh’s Egypt.

A damning comparison.