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Jewish Slave Owners

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Sarah Levy (c.1768 - 1842)
listed in her will. JEWS AND NEGRO SLAVERY IN THE OLD SOUTH, 1789-1865: Address of the President Bertram W. Korn Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society Vol. 50, No. 3 (March, 1961), pp....
Judah Philip Benjamin (1811 - 1884)
to a Sephardic family in the West Indies, Judah P. Benjamin was the most highly placed Jew in the Confederacy. Benjamin spent his adolescence in Charleston and briefly attended Yale University. He stud...
Abraham Einstein (1817 - 1875)
Listed in 1850 Georgia Slave Schedule under A. Einstein.
Benjamin Philip Owens Cohen (deceased)

This project primarily serves to profile Jewish families that owned African slaves in the United States South before the Civil War.

Slave owners can be found by searching the 1850 and 1860 United States Census Slave Schedules at Familysearch.org.

Bibliography:

Jewish Identity in the Reconstruction South: Ambivalence and Adaptation By Anton Hieke, p. 322
"JEWS AND NEGRO SLAVERY IN THE OLD SOUTH, 1789-1865" Bertram W. Korn Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society. Vol. 50, No. 3 (March, 1961), pp. 151-201 (51 pages)

Narrative of runaway slave Jim owned by David Cohen.