Book Reviews: The Secret Relationship
Donald Muhammad
The Final Call, November 18, 1991
The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews (TSR) presents a multitude of compelling facts describing first hand accounts of a pernicious and extensive involvement of Jews in the African slave trade.
Jewish historians and scholars are extensively quoted in this easy to read and fascinating 334 page volume. Not since the release of W.E.B. DuBois' The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in 1896 has a more riveting discussion of the topic of slavery been offered for public inspection.
"The facts, as established by highly respected scholars of the Jewish community, are here exposed and linked by as sparse a narrative as is journalistically permitted for review by those interested in the subject," the authors, the Historical Research Department of the Nation of Islam, stated.
Every fact was painstakingly footnoted. The research was matchless and worthy of commendation. Attempts to assuage this work as allegedly "anti-Semitic" or "anti- Jewish" falls on its face given the fact that the work contains the contributions of "respected scholars of the Jewish community."
The power of this presentation is so strong that the facts cannot be refuted. Yet this work does not pretend to be the end-all on this subject of slavery. It provides a window to even more extensive research regarding slavery by its other co-conspirators, the white Christians of Europe, the Arabs of the Middle East, and the Black African leaders who sold their own people to the slave traders.
In light of the recent allegations of "Black anti-Semitism," this book calls attention to the evil and immoral practice by the Jews in the Black holocaust of which many scholars estimate that 250 million or more perished at the hands of white people during the trade in Black slaves.
The means and methods of suppression and subversion come to light in subchapters like the "Jews and the Great Nat Turner," (TSR, p. 211) "Black Slave Owners and Jews," (TSR, p. 212) and "Jewish Clergy and Black Slavery," (TSR, pp. 143-147) are but a few of the authoritative gems contained in this most important work of the final decade of the Twentieth Century.
Former Vice President Judah P. Benjamin of the old Confederacy is among the multitude of Jewish slave owners extensively documented in The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.
Census data highlights the keen factual detail the Nation's researchers fastidiously presented. For example, Rabbi Bertram W. Korn's eminently respected work on the subject, Jews and Negro Slavery, figures prominently.
Likewise, on page 195, respected Jewish writer Louis M. Epstein the author of Sex Laws and Customs of Judaism (1967) is quoted on the subject of the Jews and rape of Black Women: "The female slave was a sex tool beneath the level of moral considerations. She was an economic good, useful, in addition to her menial labor, for breeding more slaves."
Distinguished Jewish scholarship figures prominently throughout the book, properly footnoted employing the popularly-accepted University of Chicago Manual of Style format for non-fiction research presentations.
The writers, in their Editor's Note, render a humble warning, "Those who would use this material as a basis for the violation of the human rights of another are abusing the knowledge herein. The wise will benefit to see this as an opportunity to develop more equitable relationships between the families of man."
The Global Africa News
a monthly journal of London
Thanks to the Nation of Islam's Historical Research Department, the secret is finally out. There is clear, irrefutable, academically sound, well researched and documented evidence, from mainly Jewish sources, that the Jews played a "significant" role in the enslavement and oppression of African people from before the beginning of chattel slavery to the present time. This book confirms and gives substance to the gut feelings of most African people that there is something wrong with the relationship between us and the Jews.
Up to now, it was, however, easier to believe that there is a natural alliance between Africans and [Jews] based on common bonds of oppression than a parasitic, "I give, you take" kind of relationship. Who would believe that followers of the Jewish faith, after their well publicized persecutions throughout history could be integrally implicated in our own continuing holocaust?
We experience this unequal relationship every day but when we come in contact with the predominantly Jewish controlled media, we are told that what we see, hear, feel and experience, is not really the case. So we become confused and we start to doubt our own individual and collective sanity.
Then along comes someone like Min. Louis Farrakhan of the NOI who is able to articulate, rationalize and explain clearly and concisely what we already know or suspect and the Jews point their big guns (literally sometimes) and shout "anti-Semitism." When we see what they do and threaten to do to many, many of our teachers and readers such as Malcolm X, Yosef "Dr.Ben" ben Jochannon, Leonard Jeffries, to name but a few, we get angry but we still refuse to believe that they would really do such things to us. We negate our own personal experiences in favor of media lies, distortion, false accusations, defamation and suppression of facts.
But you don't have to say or do anything specifically about the Jews for them to attack. All you have to do, like our great ancestor Marcus Garvey, is dare to have independent thought, suggest that we are not crazy or inferior and that we must be truly self-determined. Then the full force of their destruction machinery will be unleashed upon you. In particular they order some so-called leaders to condemn and attack you. A good example of this is the vicious attack on Tony Martin, the renowned Garvey biographer and professor who was terrorized by these people nonstop for six months after using The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews in one of his courses. His experiences, recalled in The Jewish Onslaught: Despatches from the Wellesley Battlefront is an indictment on the despicable behavior of the Jews and a clear indication of the importance of the information contained in this book of secrets.
There is no suggestion that the religion of Judaism was the cause of slavery or that European Jews were the only people involved in the slave trade. It is the European Jews who single themselves out from other Europeans whenever slavery, genocide or white supremacy is mentioned. Nobody pointed a finger at them until they tried to hide their involvement by using this "natural alliance" nonsense. They cite their own oppression and their "involvement" in our liberation struggles and civil rights movement (always as controllers) as proof of our relationship. But those of us who know from bitter personal and collective, historical experience, of the negative affect they have on our community, owe a duty to our grandchildren to speak up and tell the truth. Regardless of the consequences.
According to one of the mainly Jewish sources used, religious tradition and law not only "guaranteed the right to own slave" but made the ownership of African people a religious obligation, suggesting that opposition to slavery was itself "very little short of blasphemy." Any Jew who was against slavery, (and like Christians and nonreligious Europeans, there were a few) was ostracized by the Jewish community. According to Tony Martin, "Abolitionism was distinguished by a relative scarcity of Jewish voices." The same Jews who were expelled from Europe in the Inquisitions and pogroms were leading slave dealers shippers, owners, financiers and defenders of this obnoxious trade in human flesh. Even after conversion to Christianity as New Christians they continued trading with their brethren in Europe.
This book is one of the most important documents produced this century, it should be required reading in every history department of every educational establishment wherever Africans and/or Europeans live. Not as the definitive historical account, but as a balance, a means of filling in some of the gaps left by lies, misrepresentation and omission.
Tony Martin, who admits that even as a historian and scholar he was "only dimly aware of the Jewish role" in the enslavement of Africans, asks the question: "what is so special about the Jews that they are beyond the reach of scholarly enquiry?" According to their version of religion, it is because they have been "specially chosen" by God to rule over all other people. They obviously don't credit God with much sense.
Ron Evans, New York Amsterdam News
Our Kind of People: Divide et Impera (June 17, 1999, Vol. 90 Issue 25, p. 13.)
The dictum of "divide and rule" continues to be used effectively by powerful white institutions to divert attention away from critical life-and-death issues which confront us -- Blacks and whites -- as we rush toward a new millennium in racist America.
In this "new world order;" the old social control mechanisms of outright terror (lynchings, grotesque mutilations, KKK death squads, infamous gulags like Mississippi's Parchman Farm and New York's notorious Attica), while not abandoned altogether (witness the Louima atrocity in New York and the car dragging and decapitation in Jasper, Texas), they are being superseded by systematic propaganda and intensive psychological indoctrination via corporate control of major publishing houses and total corporate dominance of the mass media. (See "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman to fully comprehend this Orwellian world of "doublespeak" and "disinformation.")
A case in point has been the recent publication and vigorous corporate marketing of Lawrence Otis Graham's Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class. Graham's book has generated heated bickering within the Black middle class, as well as among the numerous Black elite organizations mentioned in the book. Interestingly, however, is the fact that within the white corporate elite, where real power lies, Graham's book is totally "acceptable."
Not so, however, for another Black-themed book, "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews." Not only is this book "unacceptable" to mainstream white publishers, but it has received an intensely hostile reception from various white organizations and individuals. In fact, an active smear campaign against the book has labeled it "anti-Semitic." (Which, of course, it is not.)
Nevertheless, the differing receptions that both books have received from white publishers and from powerful white groups and individuals have been' instructive. Graham's gook, which airs a lot of intra-Black gossip and in-group "secrets," is being marketed on TV talk shows, at specially arranged forums like the prestigious Harvard Club and covered prominently in The New York Times.
The authors of "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews," on the other hand, have not been and will not be invited to the Harvard Club to defend their thesis regarding the roll of Jews in the Atlantic slave trade. Nor will their book be reviewed or even mentioned in The New York Times. And they will definitely not be invited on any television talk shows, not even so-called "Black" shows like Oprah, Tony Brown, et al.
In fact, try using their book for a college course, as professor Tony Martin of Wellesley College (Hillary Clinton's alma mater) did, and see what can actually happen. Not only was Martin an internationally known scholar, attacked by prominent whites like Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School, but there was a blatant attempt to have him fired, even though he was (and still is) a tenured professor!
Both books represent classic examples of how propaganda systems operate and should be studied closely. Graham's book is pure "entertainment," which is used like other forms of mass entertainment -- sitcoms, basketball, tennis, boxing -- to keep our minds occupied with trivia.
"The Secret Relationship'"s reception demonstrates the weapons of censorship, suppression and intimidation which are used by powerful systems to determine what we read, and above all, what we think. (The fact that the book can be used as a pretext to exacerbate relations between Blacks and Jews is perceived by the managers of these powerful systems as a bonus.)
Those of us who have read the literature of the Black holocaust (80 to 100 million African deaths during the Middle Passage and elsewhere) are fully aware that the slave trade was an "equal opportunity" business, controlled and sanctioned by Christian nations and blessed by ecclesiastical leaders (popes, cardinals, bishops, et al.).
But within propaganda systems the pros and cons of both books are irrelevant. What concerns these systems is conformity to the demands of the day. The ultra-conservative zeitgeist demands of today are reminiscent of the "golden age" of mass propaganda, when the new technology of motion pictures and radio could be used to reach the masses with messages of white supremacy ("Amos and Andy," "Birth of a Nation," "Gone With the Wind") and anti-Semitism (Father Charles Coughlin, whose syndicated radio program of the 1930s preached blatant anti-Semitism and endorsed Nazism).
Today's additional technology -- TV, satellites, video, the Internet --has only enhanced the power of these propaganda/indoctrination systems to influence our attitudes and opinions, as well as to create doubt and confusion and hatred with modern propaganda techniques like "half truths," "truth out of context," "limited truth," "suppression of facts," disinformation/lie's" and Orwellian spins like "collateral damage," "downsizing," "freedom fighters," "assets," "black budgets," "the free world," etc., ad nauseam.
To recognize modern propaganda in the 21st century (and now!) is critical for Black folks everywhere. We must understand why the research of scholars like Noam Chomsky, Ed Herman, Lani Guinier, Tony Martin, Howard Zinn, Stephen Steinberg, Paulo Friere, Adriana Puiggiros, et. al. is not given the exposure that Graham's book has achieved.
Their books peel away the clever facades of terms like "collateral damage" for what it really means -- murders. Their painstaking research reveals the truth about fascist "freedom fighters" who work for the CIA and murder their own people for United Fruit (now renamed Chiquita). And, most dangerously, their books reveal "the tyranny of the majority" where "winners take all" of the power, leaving large segments of the population unrepresented in a so-called democracy.
But notwithstanding the immense power of these indoctrination systems in our "brave new world," the struggle for clarity, truth, justice and humanistic values goes on. It is a never-ending struggle. A struggle in which brave Americans of all hues have been "blacklisted," "banned," "deported," jailed as "subversives" (the infamous Smith Act), denied tenure for their ideas and demonized as a "quota queen" for academic scholarship. Yet they write on.
They are, as Chomsky points out, "bad apples" in the barrel. They might, indeed, infect us all with the true meaning and goals of democracy: a participatory government in which economic exploitation and social justice prevail.
Caleb Amilicar
Not surprisingly, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews when released after its fourth printing in 1994 established a presence in the scholastic realm, where new ideas are presented, discussed and researched. Compiled by the Historical Research Department, the book has undergone a quiet resurgence on college campuses across the United States. While considered by many to be an underground classic, the book has in fact influenced thought for an entire generation of students, thinkers and theorists.
Consider these words about the book written by Barry Mehler, founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism:
The book is meticulously, almost lovingly, researched and heavily footnoted. There is no question that the anonymous researchers who produced this book have scoured Jewish literature. As one who reads racist material for a living, this 334 page book appears to be a dazzling addition to the annals of anti-Semitic literature. I am sure that its influence and circulation will be impressive and long lasting.
The TEI agrees that its influence and circulation will be impressive and long lasting, but disagrees with his labeling of it as "anti-Semitic literature" as Mr. Mehler states. It is interesting that while giving praise to the quality of the research, he had apparently classified this book as "racist material" and therefore formed his opinion and judgement of the book based on that position.
On page iv the researchers for the Historical Research Department wrote the following:
A substantial body of evidence that supports the findings herein was excluded by the editors and deemed to be from sources considered anti-Semitic and/or anti-Jewish.
It is evident from that statement that the researchers conducted careful research without the disingenuous and deceptive aim, to create an anti-Semitic or racist publication.
Well packaged, the book contains 334 pages of fully documented text including 1,275 footnotes, from more than 3,000 sources. Most of the sources, if not all, were collected from Jewish historical literature. As a research document, the book is not what you would call an easy read, however, with a fully annotated index, and clearly descriptive sections and subject titles, the book is surprisingly easy to navigate. The editors detailed clearly all references consistently linked by sparse journalistic narratives intended to enhance clarity while not distracting the reader from the information contained within.
One area of note is the abolitionist movement, of which Jewish scholars ostensibly claim membership. On page 147 in a section clearly the Historical Research Department shows using Jewish sources, that those involved in the abolitionist movement were few, and those who did stand against the institution of slavery "were scorned and rebuked most harshly by their own brethren in the synagogue."
There is an additional point of interest identified through the research of the Historical Research Department. It is shown that those who did stand against the spread of slavery did so because of the threat it presented to their jobs and economic well being. This is a central difficulty and one that cannot be easily countered by the Jewish thought control organizations, since many who decried this book as anti-Semitic, cited the fact that Jews were apart of the abolitionist movement as a defense. There is no denying that they were a part of the abolitionist movement. Similarly, there is no denying that members of the Jewish community were involved in the civil rights movement of the 1960's, however, the motivation behind the involvement must be brought to light. Interestingly enough, their involvement appears motivated by self-interests and not compassion and concern.
In exhaustive detail, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews provides geographic records beginning with the infamous Columbus voyages, and dealing with Jews and slavery in Brazil, Surinam, Barbados, Curacao and Jamaica. Jewish Slavery in Colonial North America, the South, and Jewish involvement in the Civil War.
Jewish court records, port records and wills of Jewish slave owners were used. The names of ships, their owners and in many cases, their cargo, were listed and presented in an easy to understand format. Not only is the information easy to read, but using Jewish sources also eliminates the accusation of fraud -- unless of course the Jewish scholars maintain that their research in this matter is shoddy and fraudulent.
Given the volatility of the subject, it is obvious why a book approaching this area would be controversial, however as the number of those having read the book has grown over the years, it has produced in many areas, as the editor's note stated "an opportunity to develop a more equitable relationship between the families of man."
One of the most controversial books of the decade, this book is one that you must own in order to be considered, up to date and well-educated regarding historical realities. The scholarly treatment of this subject by the Historical Research Department is unmatched.
*Barry Mehler, "African American Racism in the Academic Community." First published in The Review of Education 15 # 3/4 (Fall 1993). Revised and republished as "Addressing the Problem of African-American Racism in Academia," in Martyrdom and Resistance (Nov.-Dec. 1993)
Caleb Amilicar is a Research Fellow at the The Truth Establishment Institute TEI.
Min. Jabril Muhammad
“There are wise Jews, according to what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad told me, one day, who recognized him in the 1930s! He mentioned to me where it is written in the Holy Qur'an, that they recognize him as they recognize one of their sons. This, to me, was at the base of what he wrote, in one of his How To Eat To Live books; that probably the Jews in America would come to a wise and better relationship between themselves and Black people in America. I bear witness that this is happening, as he has guided his servant, the Honorable Louis Farrakhan, to be the prime instrument in breaking up the old relationship between Blacks and Jews, which has prevailed in America.
“Out of this has come the very powerful book; the first in a series of volumes, titled: The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. (You cannot call yourself up-to-date unless you have read this book). This book contains powerful truths that explode the falsehoods that the Jews were the people God helped Abraham to foresee, who would be divinely chosen to build His kingdom, after suffering 400 years in bondage, in a land not their own. In fact, as this excellent work proves, Jews were heavily involved, and became enriched by the slave trade, which fulfilled what was prophesied.
"Negative reviewers did not really read the book...well documented, well written and well thought out." 5 stars
Reviewer: Diana Wilson from Sparta, Georgia USA October 21, 2003
I read most of the reviews on this book before purchase and found that after reading the book, the negative reviewers did not really read the book and that the positive reviews were more accurate. The book happened to be well documented, well written and well thought out. I enjoyed it from an historical point of view, and wished that I had read it in high school. Afterwards I recommended it to my family and friends. It is my wish that the NOI Research Deparment also do a similar project with the same detail on the Arab and Indian Ocean slave trades.
The Stars and Bars and the Star of David.
"detractors likely haven't sat down to actually read it " 5 stars
Reviewer: Derek Pillion from Camp Hill, PA February 16, 2003
I fail to see how this book has been targeted as a vessel carrying "racist or anti-Semitic" propaganda. It likely offends certain sensibilities because of the research dug up and documented. Bear in mind that this has less to do with the Nation of Islam than with research and the publishing of those results; the only reference to Islam is the phrase "All Praise is Due to Allah," on the title page. Furthermore, there is minimal evidence of a victim mentality in the presentation of this information. I fail to see how this could be sloppy scholarship because the hundreds of sources used are cataloged, quoted, extensively commented upon and legitimate. Most of the SECRET RELATIONSHIP'S detractors likely haven't sat down to actually read it and decide for themselves because of their prejudices. In fact, the book that condemns this one gets better advertising.
THE SECRET RELATIONSHIP is about the Jewish involvement in the black African slave trade from the middle ages to Reconstruction after the American Civil War. Jews were either heavily influential or dominated the New World cash-crop commerce which was the harbinger of slavery in the American colonies. In country after country this is documented: Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, Jamaica, Curacao, Barbados, Hispanola, the southern American colonies, etc. A disproportionate amount of the financiers of the Dutch India Company and in Newport, Rhode Island (who funded slave ships and voyages to Africa) were from prominent Jewish families. During the Civil War most Jews either supported the Confederacy and very few condemned the enslavement of Africans, which they deemed inferior to the light-skinned races. One of the most influential Jews in American history was Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin. Jews also participated in the Confederates' secret diplomacy with European powers. The final section of the SECRET RELATIONSHIP gives a list of Jews involved in the oppression of Africans along with historical and biographical information about them. Once again traditional Establishment history errs by blaming white Christians as solely responsible for the slave trade. Only 30% of whites/Christians who lived in the south owned black slaves, while 70% of the Jews there did. Also recommended: THEY WERE WHITE AND THEY WERE SLAVES by Michael Hoffman.
Provocative - Should Be Required Reading
"three books written to 'refute' it, none of which refuted a single fact " 4 stars
Reviewer: A reader from New York, NY USA February 4, 2003
... the negative reaction to this book is overstated: three books written to "refute" it, none of which refuted a single fact -- they merely challenged the authors' motives. Why? Researchers have studied the role of Christianity and the slave trade and Islam and the slave trade; there is no earthly reason why Jewish involvement shouldn't be explored (as indeed it has been; most of the statistics in this book originally appeared in Jewish texts).
It's similar to contemporary Jewish scholars studying a connection between the Catholic Church and Nazi Germany. Are these scholars motivated by anti-Catholic hatred? Or a desire to understand how a religion can so easily dismiss its own principles and participate in unimaginable brutality?
This book presents some unpleasant truths about Jewish history in the New World and Jewish barbarity toward blacks, but "unpleasant" doesn't mean "untrue" or anti-Semitic. The allegations are well documented. If Jewish Americans think the slave trade was a non-Jewish phenomenon, then this book will be especially insightful to them (those who are open-minded enough to read it, that is), because it demonstrates that no group -- not even one that itself has been victimized by prejudice...
"If you want the TRUTH about slavery...pick this book up. " 5 stars
Reviewer: A reader from Bay Area CA July 15, 2002
I am not black, I am not Jewish. I am a European born Christian white male. This book goes to document many many accounts of Jewish people owning slaves and being the main rulers of the slave trade. I am familiar with Jews throughout history and this does not surprise me. With their modern day control of the media, movies, television, newspapers, magazines, etc of course they would not like this book to be read by the masses. Why? Because after reading it, if you are black, white, jewish, christian, etc you come to one startling conclusion. The Jews are the ones who enslaved black people and they are the ones who promoted and sold slaves allot more than Christian White Males did. Knowing that, would all of the angry black people in america still blame the White Christian male for slavery...no, they would not...they would blame the Jews. This book is written by the Nation of Islam. It is very well put together and contains sources for all of the information in it. If you want the TRUTH about slavery and not the media mainstream version pick this book up.
The Truth about the Black holocaust; "Man! What a revelation!" 5 stars
Reviewer: Dialo from South Africa. March 29, 2002
Like most of my brothers, I was told and I used to believe that whites were responsible for the black holocaust. Now I see the truth. This book was written by African brothers, and they uncover the mighty lobby that started up slavery again and run it : the Jewish lobby. Brother, you must buy that book about the Black Holocaust and know that they used their influence to allow slavery, that they had North-African Jews round up African victims, that they run the business of deporting us out of Africa by their Jewish brothers based in Europe, especially in Holland where their lobby was very strong and they could manipulate the naive Dutch colonist. And then they would sell us like merchandise in the American colonies.
Man! What a revelation! Is it true? Yes, our Black Islam African brothers who wrote book have no gain in defending Christian Europeans, and they rely solely on Jewish primary sources! Man, how come I never knew this truth about our holocaust, how come? Brother, you have brains : Find out who owns the banks, finances, and the media. Seek and Find. Now brother, you know how that sick (awful in our eyes) Western world run and how it is controlled? Understand?
So the book is true, our brothers who wrote it are not wrong. And does that book mean that white are not guilty? Come on shall I ever forgive those who used slavery, and above all destroyed our soul by sending missionaries to destroy African religions, cultures and languages. This book is genuine black scholarship, it is a tough read, but all my African brothers should know the truth about the black holocaust, and I urge you, brothers, to buy or lend this book.
Interpreting the Text: "all of the facts are true" 4 stars
Reviewer from San Francisco, CA February 17, 2002
After reading this book some time ago as a teenager, I found it did have a profound impact as to how I listened to who was telling me what story. I myself am Black, Indian, Jewish and a mixture of other blood lines and so am in a unique situation. I was interested to see how someone could write a book as well balanced as possible so as to be seen as a serious work or scholarship rather than a silly slanderous work of fiction. This book actually allowed me to get an understanding as to how a lot of my family's racially mixed heritage supposedly happened.
However, I will say the one thing that surprises me as I read other reviews of this book condemning it to mere slander and propaganda, is that all of the facts are true. Perhaps I was young I was impressionable by many a thing, but this has in no way made me dehumanize Jewish people. I see what has happened not just as a crime and a shame but a cruel joke to those blacks and Jews who are on the same page.
The truth is always a difficult pill to swallow if it turns you or your fellow people into criminals. But beyond hurt pride there are millions of ways to learn from what has happened and set precedents for the future relationships. Just because that was the past relationship between Blacks and Jews doesn't mean it has to be the future one.
I recomend this book for anyone who wants to make up their minds for themselves. It quite simply defies an explanation that is not tainted without one's own views and personal experiences.
"Mandatory reading" 5 stars
Reviewer: A reader from Portland Oregon, October 19, 2001
I am not black, and I am not jewish, but I have read this book. This book, as the reviewer from Jamaica has pointed out, has never been refuted on it's factual content. This is an amazing book, given the unique relationship that jews have fostered with blacks. From the facts presented in this book, it seems that the focus of the origins of the african slave trade to the new world is rather obscured from the general population, and while I'm at it, I might as well say distorted. Blame for the existence of such a horrible institution has been shifted away from those that benefited the most from the misfortune of others.
Mr Trager's analysis of it is interesting. Once again, we hear that the book is full of lies and gross distortions, and not once does he dispute it, fact for fact. A very common argument tactic when one simply wants to silence the opposition. I wish, for once, someone of his ilk, would. His book cannot possible be as thoroughly researched as this book, if it were, he would, most definitely, come to the same conclusion. Read this book. It is a real eye-opener. Perhaps Monsieur Spielberg would like to make this into a movie!
And I highly recommend, to understand what it is to put this on a required reading list on a college campus, another book. It is "The Jewish Onslaught" by Dr. Tony Martin. This will let you know of the level that others will go through to keep the truth from you. Was this review helpful to you?
"Meticulously researched, balanced and informative book" 4 stars
Reviewer: Alafia Shexnayder from Atlanta -- October 26, 1999
Initially, after reading the reviews from the ADL and some online comments, I was prepared for a one-sided anti-semitic diatribe.
What I found after beginning to read was a very balanced, well-packaged and meticulously researched text with most of the sources if not all, taken from Jewish writers-none of whom I would think are anti-semitic, since they are Jewish.
I have seen propaganda, and this book is not propaganda. I was actually surprised that the researchers had gone through such efforts to get these sources, especially given the volatility of the subject, slavery and Jews.
This book is an excellent book. It is not the easiest read, because it is a research document, but any of us who have ever gone to college or are students, are familiar with the technical/research writing style.
If you enjoy allowing others to tell you what to think and feel, then you probably would not want to read this book because it stretches the mind and presents facts that most of us know little about. If you are a fairly intelligent individual with critical thinking skills and capable of discerning fact from fiction-you might want to consider reading this book-especially if you interested in the subject. You at least owe it to yourself to read it and see what is said before forming an opinion one way or the other.
It certainly helped me see deeper into why the ADL and others react so violently when they hear anyone mention this subject or the book.
"Well Researched Historical Document" 5 stars
Reviewer: A reader from Georgia, USA April 8, 2000
I read the Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews about eight years ago when a friend, who is a member of the Nation of Islam, loaned me his copy. I was so impressed with the high level of documentation used in researching this book that I bought my own copy.
One of the effects this book has had on the Jewish community is that it is now very difficult for a person of color to obtain entry to Jewish controlled historical archives. It was no doubt embarrassing to have Jewish archives quoted as the sources for the documentation of who owned the majority of slave ships, slave trading companies, and slave auction houses. I can understand why they would condemn this book.
Dr. Tony Martin, who taught African-American History at Wellesley College in 1993, made the mistake of thinking that he would be protected by the Right of Academic Freedom when he referenced this book while teaching just one of his class lectures. A smear campaign was instigated against him. The Jewish student organization, Hillel, in conjunction with the B'nai B'rith and the ADL, attempted to have Dr. Martin, a Black man of high standards and very respectable academic credentials, fired from his faculty position. I am not sure of the ultimate outcome of the controversy. If interested, you may wish to also read the book, The Jewish Onslaught, by Tony Martin.
"INCREDIBLY HONEST & RIVETING" 5 stars
Reviewer: A reader from Benin University Nigeria April 2, 2001
There are many books purporting to be the "History of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Writing and references are sloppy, claims are far fetched and even invented. Not this book. I first read this book after loaning it from my public library. I antiscipated yet another hysterical diatribe against whites or polemic against African chieftans. Anyone seeking racists stereotypes should look elsewhere. This book is remarkably well researched. The quotes are all from Jewish sources and no others are included because of the risk of anti-semitic bias.
The book basically consists of archival records of business transactions, personal correspondence and public records of the Sephardic ( North African, Southern European and Dutch Jews) kidnapping, selling and loaning of African slaves. Its describes the Jews creation of the trans-Atlantic slave trade which began with Christopher Columbus's arrival in the "New World" and his sending Native American Indians back to Spain. Its describes how Jewish wealth already acquired from their slave trading during the Middle Ages and Ottoman Empire period in Europe and the Middle East enabled the Jews to have the financial resources and seafaring mercantile experiences to successfully sell slaves and then sell the produce of slave labor consisting of sugar , tobacco and rum back to the Europeans. The book describes the struggles by various European monarchs to ban the consumption of excessive amounts for sugar, tobacco and rum which was leading to social decline in people that had become addicted to sugar and tobacco. A problem that is still the scourge of western society.
It also describes the tremendous indifference to the pain and suffering caused to African families and the obvious loss of life resulting from Jewish policy which claimed that it was more profitable to kill a slave after seven years then feed him or her nutritional food and keep them alive longer. Many contemporary health problems within the African-American population can be traced back to the slavery era in which their ancestors were fed only on molasses (residue of fermented sugar)
Its records the cultural backlash against the Jews profiteering and pirating from African and European monarchs and even early American settlers like Peter Styvesant in New York City. There was also numerous slave uprisings resulting in pitched and bloody battles fought between Jewish slave traders and their African captives in South America. Who would disappear into the rain forests to live alongside Native Americans. One siege lasted for nine years with the Jews eventually giving up.
I am a cultural anthropologist so I checked out as many references as I could and they were all authentic. Particularly chilling are the personal correspondence between Jewish slave owners about their private lives and slavery. Incest and venereal disease was common place amongst them but this did not act as any kind of obstacle since the lure of huge profits clashed with personal scruples
There are some fresh insights into the role that the Jewish merchants played in the genocide against Native American Indians. It was a Jewish merchant that supplied the infected blankets and handkerchiefs to the English. So that they could reduce their numbers on the East coast of America with small pox. It describes how the Native Americans were encouraged to participate in slave trading to prevent slaves from escaping to their encampments but the outcome was unsuccessful because the Native tribes would not treat their African captives any different from their own people. This is still a considerable amount of the African-American populace of both Americas which has Native American Indian ancestry due to intermixing.
All though the book is brief and riveting. Its is not easy reading at all. You really require a cast iron stomach to get through it because of the somewhat gory nature of its contents. However the archival material is so relentless and succinct that although you may feel revolted by the mercenary accounts of what must be one of the worst records of man’s inhumanity to man. You still want to read it none the less.
"Very Informative, Extremely Well Researched, Underrated" 5 stars
Reviewer: A reader from Oxnard, CA January 5, 2001
Before I read and reviewed this book I had my misgiving. First, I questioned the accuracy of the sources, and if they could warrant a debate. Second, since the book has no author there aren't any other works cited. So I was prepared for a book with no substance. Was I ever surprised. The book has well documented accounts of Jewish involvement in the Black Holocaust from primarily Jewish Sources. This book shows how a people motivated by greed, were almost singlehandedly responsible for one of humanities greatest crimes. Rabbi Einhorn states," a Jew praises the Lord for deliverance from Egyptian bondage, but defends slavery when he is the enslaver. Black and Jewish people alike, Read This Book. If this book is controversial it is because it sheds light and makes one aware of the injustice. Not to mention the embarrassment and shame it will cause. I believe a formal debate is in order. If the book is racist propaganda as the ADL and Harold Brackman claim have a open forum. Get prominent Rabbis and Jewish Historians to debate with Tony Martin and His team. The Time for truth is now.
A Note on some FAKE Amazon "reviews"
The Case of "John O'Donnell of Girard, Ohio
As you will see, the Amazon.com readers have overwhelmingly praised The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume One, giving it the highest possible overall rating of "5 stars." Racist Jews attempted several times to sabotage this high rating by posting bogus reviews at Amazon.com giving it the lowest "1 star." They didn't even attempt to hide the fact that they'd obviously never seen the book they claimed to be "reviewing." In several cases, these Jewish Black Holocaust Deniers had simply cut & pasted negative reviews from other websites and tried to pass them off as their own words. When this happened, we notified Amazon.com and they promptly removed the bogus reviews. In a couple of cases, we have even contacted these "reviewers" by e-mail and asked them to describe a specific page in The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume One, and both times these "reviewers" have been unable to answer the simplest of questions about the contents of the book.
The latest such scam has been perpetrated by "college student" John O'Donnell of Girard, Ohio [maduro@sprynet.com] (an all-white suburb of Youngstown) whose phony one-star "review" of 12/9/03 is now posted at the Amazon.com website. When asked on 12/22 to tell us what were the first two words on the top of a specific page, he wrote:
I am sorry that you feel that I have never read your book, while the fact of the matter my library (local) had a copy before it was taken off the shelf that I had borrowed....I am not a Jewish parrot, nor am I a prison mule for Lewis Farakhan either....Shudd up stupid. (sic) John
[punctuation, syntax, grammar, spelling, all his]
Of course, we were not the least bit surprised to find that The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume One, is not, nor has it ever been, at any of the libraries close to the all-white Girard, Ohio.
Let the reader beware.
John O'Donnell's Phony Review Posted at Amazon.com [puntuation, syntax, grammar, spelling, all his; emphasis ours]:
Can anyone say Anti-Semitic?,
December 9, 2003 Reviewer: vaerendor from Youngstown, Ohio
Maybe I should refer you to my review of Gavin Menzies historical atrocity 1421. However, even a book that serves as nothing more than a door stop has more merit than this Handbook of Hate. Note to the nation of islam, and others who need to learn how to write effectively.
1. Research, Research, and more Research: Look for valid sources, and if you quote from a particular source do it exactly do not re-word the quote so it fits your specific agenda.
Perhaps you should all pick up a writing guide that teaches you these things, may I suggest the Rampolla guide to writing in History? Otherwise you BASTARDIZE someone else's work and this my friends we like to call plagiarism.
As far as content goes, it is unfair to blame a specific people for something like the Slave Trade. While there may have been Jewish people involved they were less than 5% of the participants...figuring even lower than the American Indians who owned Black slaves. Now, there were definately others involved in the transportation of slaves: English, Dutch, Portugeese, French, etc etc the list can continue forever. Most notably though is the fact that the slave trade also contained Africans who sold their own people into slavery.
It is pure insipid thought that would blame simply the Jewish people on this, I would have thought we have come further than that as a people, but as long as people believe in trash such as this book...my guess must be wrong.
And finally do not even compare this with the holocaust and say one is worse than the other, both are equally horrible acts committed by the same type of people filled with hatred that wrote a book like this. The same type of people bought into slavery and the holocaust are the same SHEEP that believe every word in pieces of work like this...
[end of John O'Donnell's Phony Amazon.com "review"]
