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“The total number of families holding slaves, by the census of 1850, was 347,525.” https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1850/1850c/1850c-04.pdf (Page 13) Jews accounted for a small percentage of that total: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/slave-trade-black-muslim Arabs dominated the African slave trade, enslaving upwards of 18 million Africans (still ongoing in places like Libya). https://library.achievingthedream.org/tccworldciv2/chapter/transsaharan-slave-trade/ https://newafricanmagazine.com/16616/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
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