The Dutch were heavily involved in the slave trade too.
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Tell me something I didn't know. Or should we say the Jews as the biggest profit makers of it were Jewish families like Maduro in Curaçao.
Then he was right as most of the Dutch weren't really involved in it. Ship captains and officers were Dutch. Most of the crew foreign (German, Norwegian and Danish) and the same for soldiers on fortresses. The governors of fortresses were Dutch.
Most of the traders were Jews (probably both in Africa - the ones that bought them from the tribes - and in the New World) and only the plantation owners were Dutch. The gentlemen that ran the WIC were usually Dutch.
Most of the population wasn't at all involved in the slave trade or profited from it.
Islam is shite, and it needs keeping out of Europe. But where it's taken its deepest roots it probably suits the people there, so we should leave it alone. We can push for the rights of the surviving Christians and other non-Muslims there too, of course, but there's no need to get all pally with Jews and assist them in fucking the place over. Muslims are bad enough without giving them reasons to want to hurt us. :rolleyes:
I need to correct myself there: a lot of the plantation OWNERS were also Jewish: both in Suriname or in the Dutch West Indies. So.. how Dutch was this slave trade anyway ?
So we are dealing here with:
Mostly Jewish financiers
Jewish middleman traders
Mostly Jewish plantation owners.
Mostly German and Scandinavian (also some Dutch) crews of the ships and mostly mercenary soldiers.
Mostly Dutch WIC big wigs. (to see how Dutch they are I would need to look up names)
Dutch governors of the fortresses in Africa and in the West Indies, Suriname.
Africans selling their prisoners to "us" - or perhaps would it be more historically correct to say: Jews.
I don't think that it would be fair to say that it was a Dutch slave trade.