for a mere 27 (pounds), 2 other for 45 (pounds) and two women each for 35

(pounds)." (No doubt, English money)Abraham Pereia Mendez was very angry
and accused Aaron Lopez of "cheating" him. This letter delineates to us that this
generous and fine citizen of Newport was insatiable in his greed for money.
This is what caused the Rabbi Morris A. Gutstein to present this nobleman,
Aaron Lopez, to pursue his objectionable methods. Negroes presented to him
 but a commodity. In all of the letters which the "Carnegie Institute" published,
it stresses the lack of human sympathy for the poor Negro slaves. This lack of
feeling and compassion for the abused and pitiful Blacks at the hands of their
Jewish dealers, can be read out of the diary of a captain who manned a ship
 owned by Aaron Lopez.

The entrees concern a trip from the African Coast to Charleston. Moreover, they

are authentic documents, published by the "Camegie Institute" in Washington,

D.C., calling attention to an organization which had heretofore known little or

nothing about; neither had they encountered further publicity in books or

newspapers. Therefore, it is not to be wondered at that the facts of the leading

share of American Jews in the slave trade could be pointed out as a monopoly,

andunknown to the non-Jewish Americans, including the great masses of people

all over the world. Others, however, acquainted with the facts, had good reason

to remain painfully quiet.

The captain of another ship, the "Othello" among other things, makes the

following entries in his diary:

February 6th: One man drowned in the process of loading.

March 18th: Two women went overboard because they had not been

locked up.

April 6th: One man dead with Flux. (No doubt an illness.)

April 13th: One woman dead with Flux.

May 7th: One man dead with Flux.

June 16th: One man dead by Kap Henry.

June 21st: One man dead by James Fluss.

July 5th: One woman dead with fever.

July 6th: One girl, sick for two months, died.

This vessel was on its way for five months. What terrible and unspeakable

suffering was the lot of these millions of Blacks, who were torn with brutal force

from their friendly African huts, jammed together, like animals below deck, and

then sold with less concern than selling a head of cattle. Small wonder that ten of

them died, being purchased for just a few dollars, and then sold for the sum of

$2,000.00.

Some Negroes managed, through insurrection, to gain control of one or another

ship and turned it around, with full sails, toward their African home. The crew of

one slave ship, "Three Friends" for instance, tortured their Black cargo in such a