Video regarding Jewish Trans-Atlantic slave trade; not checked, verified or considered, and the sources given are not always easy to check. Especially the part regarding something like 120 out of 128 slave ships transporting slaves in a given year being owned by Jews did not have a proper source as far as I could understand from the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJK5dFplR4.
Jewish ownership of plantations (no statistics, regrettably, and not a direct source):
"In fact, the cotton-plantations in many parts of the South were wholly in the hands of the Jews, and as a consequence slavery found its advocates among them."
Jews living in the Virgin Islands, starting from around 1655, and around 1850 on one/some of the islands they made up around 50% of the local 'white' people, according to this seemingly Jewish source:
Note that some of the islands were colonized and controlled by Denmark for several centuries; Denmark outlawed slave trading in 1802, and Denmark outlawed slavery in 1848 (see for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_Indies, http://archive.is/KAFEG). There were definitely also non-Jewish Danes on the islands, however.
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Video regarding Jewish Trans-Atlantic slave trade; not checked, verified or considered, and the sources given are not always easy to check. Especially the part regarding something like 120 out of 128 slave ships transporting slaves in a given year being owned by Jews did not have a proper source as far as I could understand from the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJK5dFplR4.
Newport and Bristol being the primary slave markets in the American colonies: http://slavenorth.com/rhodeisland.htm, http://archive.is/Tgsor.
"Jewish Newport": http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3000446/jewish/The-History-of-Jewish-Newport-Rhode-Island.htm, http://archive.is/QSpiH
Jewish ownership of plantations (no statistics, regrettably, and not a direct source):
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/910-agriculture, http://archive.is/1IkWV
Jews living in the Virgin Islands, starting from around 1655, and around 1850 on one/some of the islands they made up around 50% of the local 'white' people, according to this seemingly Jewish source:
http://archive.is/pezdJ, http://www.jewishvirginislands.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/291284/jewish/Jewish-History-on-Island.htm.
Note that some of the islands were colonized and controlled by Denmark for several centuries; Denmark outlawed slave trading in 1802, and Denmark outlawed slavery in 1848 (see for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_Indies, http://archive.is/KAFEG). There were definitely also non-Jewish Danes on the islands, however.