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This historical study examines the participation of Jewish people in the institution of slavery in the American South between 1789 and 1865. The text documents Jewish involvement as plantation owners, slave traders, and business associates, while also addressing contemporary opinions and social interactions regarding the enslaved population.

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64 Arthur Heeht, "Abraham Cohen: Deputy Postmaster at Georgetown, South Carolina (1789-1800),'* PAJHS, vol. XLVIII, no. 3 (March, 1959), p. 178.

66 Advertisement in Knoxville Daily Register, Apr. 30, 1863.

65 Mobile City Directories for 1839 and 1842; article on Mobile Jewish History by Alfred G. Moses, Mobile Register, June 19, 1932.

67 Advertisement in Mobile Daily Advertiser and Chronicle, Feb. 6, 1841.

68 Mississippi Free-Trader and Natchez Tri-Weekly Gazette, September 29, 1836; Edwin Adams Davis and William Ransom Hogan (eds.), William Johnson's Natchez: The AnteBellum Diary of a Free Negro (Baton Rouge, 1951), pp. 66, 175, 224, 366, passim. The Johnson diary contains frequent references to sales of various kinds of merchandise, including slaves, at the Soria auctions. Davis and Hogan, The Barber of Natchez (Baton Rouge, 1954), pp. 31, 173.

68a Louisiana Gazette, July 8, 1808.

59 New Orleans City Directory for 1832; Historical Epitome of the State of Louisiana . . . (New Orleans, 1840), p. 252.

60 New Orleans City Directory for 1855.

61 EL, pp. 44-54 and 143.

62 Bancroft, op. cti., pp. 97-98.

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School, of which his wife was directress. His speeches, which were deemed important enough to be reported and even quoted at length in

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