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1492-1497 When the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, many fled over the border to Portugal. But in 1497 the Portuguese government banished Jews from that country as well. Many of the Jews fled to other more hospitable European countries, but some sailed to Brazil to start over in this Portuguese territory. .... Spanish Jews dominating the slave trade out of Newport, Rhode Island. Caribbean Jews funded Jewish communities in America and often traveled & traded with America including the MASSIVELY PROFITABLE SLAVE TRADE out of Newport! Jews led & build the use of slaves to exploit in labor intensive agriculture. 1493 Columbus had a Jew on board named Luis de Torres who stayed behind on the island of Hispaniola with 39 other men at the settlement of La Navidad. When Columbus came back the end of that year, he found the whole garrison had been wiped out by internal strife and by an Indian attack, which had occurred in retaliation to the Spaniards' abducting native women.


1500s Jews set up trade routes between Portugal and the colonies, and became wealthy large plantation owners in Brazil growing labor-intensive sugar cane exported to Madeira in Portugal... Hollanders sailed into the harbor of Recife...They had the help of many of the secret Jewish settlers living in Brazil. At early date there were Jewish merchants and traders already settled in Martinique arriving earlier with the Dutch. 1642 Dutch wanted to send settlers to colonize their new territory in Brazil, a group of 600 of the Amsterdam Jews sailed for Brazil calling themselves the "Holy Congregation", and soon numbered up to four thousand. They prospered in their traditional occupations as traders and merchants, but also plantation owners. 1642-1667 Surinam a boatload of Jews arrived from Britain in 1652 & Jews were offered rights that they did not have anywhere else, including he right to be full British citizens.


But all British subjects were to be allowed to leave, and a ship was sent to carry all those wishing to depart, but the Dutch government would not allow the Jews to leave fearing all the wealth would disappear with them! A historical list shows ten Jews, mostly in the Pereira family, and their 822 slaves wished to emigrate to Jamaica, but were not allowed to do so. By 1730 the Jewish plantation-based economy of Surinam, with its riches of sugar cane, coffee, and chocolate turned out to be the leading community of the Americas. Jewish plantations & sugar crops depended on slave labor imported from Africa & by the 1690s, these slaves began rebelling and escaped into the jungle. These factors, along with the discovery that sugar could be obtained from beets... many of the settlers were Catholic clerics serving as missionaries, including Jesuit priests who did not like the practices of the Jews and sought legislation to limit Jewish actions against slaves & the poor & for their crimes. The original Barbados synagogue building is still standing... the oldest Jewish graveyard in the Western Hemisphere.


The Jews settled in an area still known as Jodenwyk (Joden is "Jewish" in Dutch). In 1651, a large number of Jewish settlers, in flight from the persisting battle between the Portuguese and Dutch in Brazil, arrived in Curacao. 1654 British colonies of Surinam, Barbados, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands actively promoted the settlement of Jews as good merchants, but other merchants accused the Jews of unfair trade practices.1656 Jews to establish a congregation in Willemstad, Curacao which is still in existence. They built a synagogue in 1692.The Jewish community in Curacao was so strong that it helped the Newport, Rhode Island congregation in 1765. Newport in the late 1600s was the #1 traders of slaves and it was run by a Spanish Jew named Lopez.


The Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews did not get along well, and ultimately two congregations were founded. Sephardis, who were mostly wealthy and well-educated business people, were considered the elite of the Jewish people... Jews pretended to convert (crypto-Jews) but kept their religion in their hidden societies... 1665 Surinam, not an island but just north of Brazil was a British colony for a short while, and Jewish settlement started while it was British... 1671 British attracted Jews to their colony in Jamaica at both Kingston and Spanish Town. The Jews became economically successful there, but soon the citizens of Jamaica petitioned the British government to expel all members of the local Hebrew community, but the colonial governor in Jamaica, blocked the ban... 1683 King Louis XIV ordered all Jews expelled from French colonies in the New World, but the colonial government ignored the rule...