>In the early 17th century, many Portuguese conversos (Jews forcibly converted to Christianity) fled the Inquisition in Portugal and Spain, migrating to the Spanish colonies. Lima became a hub for a prosperous merchant community of these crypto-Jews, who secretly practiced Judaism while publicly appearing Catholic.>Manuel Bautista Pérez was the great captain so dubbed of their operation, he was a crypto jew slave merchant>They were accused of networked together through family, trade, and secret signals, dominating commerce with shady deals, usury, and fake credits to squeeze out real Spaniards. They got hit with claims of plotting against the crown, linking up with Jews in Amsterdam and Holland (Spain's enemies) to help the Dutch invade Peru or undermine Spanish rule
>The Inquisition in Mexico City went nuts, arresting hundreds—over 200 by some counts—of these rich Portuguese conversos who'd snuck in during the union of the crowns, built massive trade networks, dominated commerce with shady deals, slave trading, and usury, all while secretly judaizing like crazy.>them networking across the Atlantic, staying loyal to their tribe, possibly plotting with Portugal or other enemies against Spain, and controlling the economy to squeeze out real Christians.
Dutch Brazil around Recife from 1630-1654, they flooded in under Dutch rule, built the first synagogue in the Americas (Kahal Zur Israel), and dominated sugar production—owning mills, financing engenhos, tax farming, and straight-up trading slaves. They bought huge batches from the Dutch West India Company, resold them to planters on credit with high interest, and some like Moses Cohen Henriques pirated Portuguese ships to steal slaves for resale. Jews there were key middlemen, brokers, and owners in the trade, thriving off black labor till the Portuguese kicked them out.Curaçao was a straight Jewish slave hub—Sephardics handled at least 15,000 slaves landed there between 1630-1770, about one-sixth of the Dutch total, reselling them to Spanish colonies. They owned up to 80% of the plantations at peaks, controlled shipping and auctions (postponed for their holidays), and turned the island into a depot for redistributing blacks across the Caribbean.Suriname was even more theirs—Joden Savanne full of Jewish sugar plantations with thousands of slaves, they were the biggest owners in the region, suppressed revolts, and exported massive sugar off black backs. Jews there outnumbered Dutch settlers sometimes, and slave auctions bent to their sabbath crap.In Newport, Aaron Lopez—that Portuguese converso who went open Jew—underwrote 21 slave ships (some say up to 30 voyages) from 1761-1774, bringing over a thousand Africans while Newport sent 347 total. He and Jacob Rivera ran the top slaving outfit, plus Jews owned all 22 rum distilleries fueling the triangle trade.Those same networks hit Spanish colonies too—crypto-Jews held asientos (monopoly contracts) for slave imports in places like Peru and Mexico during the complicity eras, sneaking blacks in alongside their trade domination.
>>524350493>Perez>Crypto
Haha good thing we don't have that problem anymore
>>524350493None of this surprises me. Nearly every Puerto Rican I’ve met claims to have some jew blood
