>>16345456>A few Jews even became prominent slaveowning planters in the Old South ... as successful as these Jewish Southerners were by Southern standards, they represent a very tiny percentage of the 20,000 Jews residing in the antebellum South who could, or would, ever aspire to own a slave. About 5,000 Jews owned one or more slaves - *about 1.25 percent of all the slaveowners in the antebellum South.*Source: "Encyclopedia of World Slavery" by Junius Rodriguez, you can find the book on Google books
