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2023-10-05 12:54:30 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 017658B7B9D60B0E4F4976A220E30ED2A44D25931ED04034D750D7DCC2F546E6
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Jews owned only a fraction of 1% of the enslaved population in 1860. The myth of Jewish slave ownership is due to a widely debunked Nation of Islam book. Henry Louis Gates, director of African & AA Research at Harvard said it “massively misrepresents the historical record” https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/14/opinion/l-jews-had-negligible-role-in-slave-trade-183202.html https://www.jta.org/archive/behind-the-headlines-historians-contest-farrakhan-claim-that-jews-predominated-in-slave-trade
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