The Biggest Slavers in the 16th, 17th.. and going into the 18th Century were the Jews..

Matthew Nolan: The Biggest Slavers in the 16th, 17th.. and going into the 18th Century were the Jews.. 'The Jewish scholar Jonathan Schorsch says this, Jewish merchants routinely possessed enormous numbers of slaves temporarily before selling them off, if a slave auction fell on a Jewish festival, it was postponed due to a lack of buyers and sellers.. 'Rabbi Herbert Bloom adds that the slave trade was one of the most important Jewish activities. Jewish slaving is in fact confirmed by the Jewish encyclopedia'..