Since I’ve seen a lot of young African-Americans wanting to know more about slavery in the US, I thought I would provide some information.

At the height of American slavery, 78% of slave owners were ethnic Jews 40% of the Jewish population owned slaves with only 0.35% of White Americans owning slaves due to their own poverty. The poverty being due to the fact that White landowners did

not produce enough profit to buy slaves for their land. The American Jews, however, were able to due to their positions in government and economics in burgeoning Southern and Western towns and cities.