Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight is a 1998 book by Eli Faber. It focuses on Jewish involvement in the American slave trade and was a polemical rebuttal against the Nation of Islam's 1991 book The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.
Structure
About half of the book is composed of appendices.
Reviews and reception
In 1999, Joseph C. Miller reviewed the book in The Journal of American History. He noted that it is one of several works intended as a polemical rebuttal of claims presented in The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews (a 1991 book by the Nation of Islam) which claimed that Jews dominated the African slave trade. He notes that the book analyzes the Jewish participation in the slave trade in a quantitative manner, beginning with the 17th century. He concludes that Faber shows that the Jews were engaged in the slave trade no more and no less than merchants of other backgrounds.Several more reviews appeared in 2000. David Eltis reviewed the book for The American Historical Review. He...