Columbus was accompanied by five 'maranos' (Jews who had forsworn
their religion and supposedly became Catholics), Luis de Torres,
interpreter; Marco, the surgeon; Bernal, the physician;
Alonzo de la Calle and Gabriel Sanchez.
  -- (Ref. 'The International Jew' by Henry Ford)

"Gabriel Sanchez, abetted by the other four Jews, sold Columbus on
the idea of capturing 500 Indians and selling them as slaves in
Seville, Spain, which was done. Columbus did not receive any of
the money from the sale of the slaves but he became the victim of
a conspiracy fostered by Bernal, the ship's doctor. He, Columbus,
suffered injustice and imprisonment as his reward. Betrayed by the
five maranos (Jews) whom he had trusted and helped. This, ironically,
was the beginning of slavery in the Americas."
  -- "Adventures of an African Slaver"
      by Malcolm Cowley, 1928, p.11)

"The Jews were expelled from Spain on August 2, 1492 and from
Portugal in 1497. Many of these Jews emigrated to Holland,
where they set up the Dutch West Indies Company to exploite the new world."
  -- Who Brought the Slaves to America, page 4

"The first Jew to begin trading with the Indians was Hayman Levy,
who imported cheap glass beads, textiles, earrings, armbands and other
cheap adornments from Holland which were traded for valuable fur pelts,
Hayman Levy was soon joined by Jews Nicholas Lowe and Joseph Simon.
Lowe conceived the idea of trading rum and whiskey to the Indians and
set up a distillery in Newport, where these two liquors were produced.
Within a short time there were 22 distilleries in Newport, all of them
owned by Jews, manufacturing and distributing 'firewater'. The story of
the debauching of the Indians with its resultant massacres of the early
settlers, is a dramatic story in itself.
    "An authentic, contemporary report, based on authority, indicates
that of 128 Slave ships that unloaded their 'Cargo' in
Charleston, within one year 120 of these were undersigned by Jews from
Newport and Charleston by their own name. About the rest of them, one
can surmise, although they were entered as Boston (1) Norfolk (2),
and Baltimore (4), their real owners were similarly the Jewish slave
dealers from Newport and Charleston.
    "Concerning the entire commerce of the Colonies, and the later
State of Rhode Island, (which included Newport) bills of lading,
concessions, receipts, and port clearances carried the signature name
of the Jew, Aaron Lopez. This all took place during the years
1726 to 1774. He had therefore more than 50% of all dealings under his
personal control for almost fifty years. Aside from that there were
other ships which he owned, but sailed under other names.
    "In the year 1749, the first Masonic Lodge was established.
90% of the members of this first lodge, fourteen all told, were Jews.
And one knows that only so-called 'prominent' individuals were accepted.
Twenty years later, the second Masonic Lodge: 'King David' was established.
It is a fact that all of these members were Jews."
  -- Who Brought the Slaves to America, page 5

    "Prior to 1661, all of the Colonies had laws prohibiting slavery.
It was in that year that the Jews had become powerful enough to bring
about the repeal of these laws, and slavery began in earnest."
  -- Who Brought the Slaves to America, page 11

    "We now learn that the Jews created slavery and practiced it long
before the birth of Jesus Christ. Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. XI, p. 485,
Rabbi Lewis Browne, in his 'Stranger Than Fiction,' p. 196, says that
"under the tolerant rule of the Mohammedans, the Jews began slavery
and began to prosper. They who had been poor and bedraggled peddlars
for centuries, now became wealthy and powerful traders. They traveled
everywhere, from England to India, from Bohemia to Egypt. Their commonest 
merchandise in those days was slaves. On every highroad and on every
great river and sea, these Jewish traders were to be found with their
gangs of shackled prisoners in convoy."

    "Albert M. Hyamson ('A History of the Jews in England,' p, 5)
makes the interesting observation that the Jewish slave traders were
probably indirectly responsible for the conversion of Britain to
Christianity. Homer mentions Cyprus and Egypt as the common markets
for slaves, about the time of the Trojan war. Egypt is represented in
the book of Genesis as a market for slaves, and in Exodus was famous
for the severity of its servitude. Tyre and Sidon, as we learn from
the book of Joel, were notorious for the prosecution of the slave trade.
Although this trade was not confined to the Jews they nevertheless
introduced it throughout all Asia and spread it through the Grecian and
Roman world. As the northern nations were settled in their conquests,
the slavery and commerce of the human species began to decline, and
were finally abolished. Some writers have ascribed this result to
the prevalence of the feudal system; while others, a much more
generous class, have maintained that it was the natural effect of
Christianity. Christianity was admirably adapted to this purpose.
It taught "that all men were originally equal; that the Deity was
no respecter of persons; and that, as all men were to give an
account of their actions hereafter, it was necessary that they
should be free."
    "Albert Hyamson says, 'The British slaves who, in the Roman
market-place, attracted the attention of King Gregory, and directed
it towards Britain, were most probably introduced into Italy by
Jewish merchants.' The first attempt by the British to establish a
regular slave trade on the African coast, was made in the year 1618,
when James I, granted an exclusive charter to Sir Robert Rich
and some other Jewish merchants of London for raising a joint
stock company to trade to Guinea."
  -- Who Brought the Slaves to America, page 27