“JEWS sometimes showed empathy for their slaves. For instance in Mexico City at the end of the 16th century, in a family of Jewish slave hunters/traders – the Carvajals.

“A Mr. Diaz (an employee) was ordered to whip a black man.

“He complies, the negro starts screaming, and now the women of the house come running and ask Diaz to stop immediately.

“Diaz did not oblige and continued the punishment. His boss had given him very clear instructions.

“The following days, he was surprised because the Carvajal girls shun him, and he couldn’t understand why. It’s still not that negro whipping thing, is it? It’s not the first time that one of the house slaves has been beaten. Besides, the girls regularly attend the sessions. So what? What went through their minds?

“Finally it was the little brother, Miguel, eleven years old, who would reveal the reason to him: it was Saturday, when he thrashed this negro. And Saturday is Shabbat.

“He should have waited until Sunday; they would have come to look.”

— Agobard De Bretagne. Jewish Slave Traders: The Jews, Slavery and the Slave Trade through Centuries (pp. 99-100). Kindle Edition.

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