[lentulusgracchus]

The Atlantic slave trade was always highly profitable to its participants. That's why it persisted, and nobody knows how many Buzzard's Bay and Boston Bay ships were converted from the declining whaling business to slaving. But it happened -- sub rosa, and therefore w/o adequate documentation.

Lerone Bennett made waves when he charged that numbers of prominent Jewish East Coast families were involved in the slave trade. Scholars looked into it, and whaddayaknow ....

Hey, business is business. It has no morality and no allegiance except to the bottom line. That's why the values of the forum have to be checked by "blue laws". Otherwise, the Chicago Board of Trade would be trading virgins right along with their other commodities.

[AlanD]

“The Atlantic slave trade was always highly profitable to its participants. “

Are you reading my replies to you? The Atlantic slave trade was not ALWAYS profitable, in fact, it didn’t even exist in 1860.

God gave you two ears and one mouth for a reason.

[AlanD]

Your gratuitous mention of supposed Jewish East Coast Families that controlled the shipping business puts you in the same league as Jeremiah Wright, and Lerone Bennett. Your anti-Semitism is showing.