Jewish

 

Jewish

 

Africans

 

Averages

 

Population

 

Slaveowners

 

Ensaved

 

 

 

 

 


1790

New England

 

23

 

5

 

21

 

22%

–

 

4.2

New York

 

60

 

20

 

43

 

33%

–

 

2.15

Philadelphia

 

31

 

3

 

6

 

10%

–

 

2

Maryland

 

8

 

3

 

3

 

38%

–

 

1

1820

New Orleans

 

6

 

6

 

23

 

100%

–

 

3.8

1830

New Orleans

 

22

 

20

 

75

 

45%

–

 

7.5#

1840

New Orleans

 

?

 

55

 

348

 

?

–

 

6.3

1850

Mobile Albama

 

72+

 

31

 

90

 

43%

–

 

2.9

South Carolina

 

73

 

34

 

151

 

46%

–

 

4.44


* "J" indicates percentage of Jews owning enslaved people; and "A" indicates average number of Africans per number of Jews owning them.

# This figure is inflated because one Jew owned 30 Africans and another owned 17.

+ Of these 72 Jews, 19 were clerks or peddlers living with relatives and 14 were bachelors in single boarding houses, yet owning an enslaved person. The most prosperous few held enslaved whites (Irish).