The relatively high proportion of Jewish slaveholding was a function of the concentration of Jews in cities and towns, not of their descent or religion
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1995/09/slavery-and-the-jews/376462/
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https://web.archive.org/web/20141021145539/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1995/09/slavery-and-the-jews/376462/
In other words Jews owned slaves but not because their Jewish religion or ancestry but only because they tended to live in cities
What if people who lived in cities were more likely to own slaves because Jews are more likely to live in cities?
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