MONSANTO Family Were

Slave Dealers And Owners

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Here is some interesting MONSANTO history: 

The Jewish Monsanto Family of Louisiana included  Benjamin, Isaac, Manuel, Eleanora, Gracia and Jacob. They  made frequent purchases of Blacks including twelve in 1785, thirteen and  then thirty-one in 1787, and eighty in 1768. 

In 1794, Benjamin sold "Babet," a Black woman, to Franco Cardel.  Manuel sold two Blacks from Guinea named "Polidor" and  "Lucy" to James Saunders for $850 in silver. 

As individuals they were owners of Africans whom they named "Quetelle," "Valentin,"  "Baptiste," "Prince," "Princess," "Ceasar," "Dolly," "Jen," "Fanchonet,"  "Rozetta," "Mamy," "Sofia," and many others. Isaac repeatedly mortgaged four  of these when in financial trouble. Benjamin Monsanto of Natchez,  Mississippi entered into at least 6 contracts for the sale of his slaves  which would take place after his death. Gracia bequeathed nine Africans to  her relatives in her 1790 will, and Eleanora also held Blacks as slaves.

Manuel Jacob Monsanto entered into at least 12 contracts for sale of slaves  between 1787 and 1789 in Natchez and New Orleans, Louisiana.1135 "His family  consists of himself and seven Negroes."1136 Later, "Jacob Monsanto, son of  Isaac Rodrigues Monsanto, one of the very first known Jews to settle in New  Orleans, owner of a several-hundred-acre plantation at Manchac, fell in love  with his slave, Mamy or Maimi William. Their daughter Sophia, grew up to be  a lovely quadroon." An excerpt of one of Benjamin's many slave contracts  follows:

"Be it known to all to whom these presents shall come, that I Benjamin  Monsanto do really and effectually sell to Henry Manadu a negro wench named  "Judy," aged Eighteen years, native of Guinea, for the sum of four hundred  Dollars in all the month of January in the year one thousand Seven hundred  and ninety one; and paying interest at the rate of ten per cent for the  remaining two hundred and fifty Dollars until paid; said negro wench being  and remaining mortgaged until final payment shall have been made; wherewith  I acknowledge to be fully satisfied and content, hereby renouncing the plea  of non numerata pecunia, fraud, or others in the case Whatsoever; granting  formal receipt for the same. For which said consideration I do hereby resign  all right, title, possession and claim, in and to the said Slave, all of  which I transfer and convey to the Said Purchaser and his assigns, to be, as  his own, held and enjoyed, and when fully paid for, Sold, exchanged, or  otherwise alienated at pleasure in virtue of these presents granted in his  favor in token of real delivery, without other proof of property being  required, from which he is hereby released, binding myself to maintain the  validity of this present sale in full form and right in favor of the  Purchaser aforesaid, and granting authority to the Justices of his Majesty  to compel me to the performance of the same as if Judgment had already been  given therein, renouncing all laws, rights, and privileges in my favor  whatsoever. And I the said Henry Manadu being present, do hereby accept this  Instrument in my favor, receiving said negro Wench as purchased in the form  and for the consideration therein mentioned and contained, wherewith I am  fully satisfied and content, hereby renouncing the plea of non numerato  pecunia, fraud, or other considerations in the case Whatsoever; granting  formal receipt for the same. Done and executed, in testimony thereof, at the  post of Natchez, this nineteenth day of the month of February in the year  one thousand seven hundred and ninety...."

 

Benjamin Monsanto, sold land and "a Dwelling House, Store, and two other  buildings, for which I have received payment in a negro, named 'Nat;' to my  full satisfaction." Another contract stipulated "that Don Louis Faure is  bound to defend the said sale in case the negro shall be claimed by any  other Person." In a 1792 contract, Benjamin mortgaged his Black slaves: "I  do hereby specially mortgage three slaves to me belonging, namely Eugene and  Louis, aged twenty four years each, the first named of the Senegal nation  and the second of the Congo nation; and a Negro Woman named Adelaide, aged  twenty eight years, also of the Congo nation; which said slaves I warrant  free from mortgage or other incumbrance, as I have made appear by  certificate from the Recorder of mortgages; and which said slaves I promise  and engage shall not be sold nor otherwise alienated during the term of this  obligation..."

 

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The following Jews were known dealers, owners, shippers or supporters of the  slave trade and of the enslavement of Black African citizens in early New  York history.

 

Issack Asher, Jacob Barsimson, Joseph Bueno, Solomon Myers Cohen, Jacob Fonseca,  Aberham Franckfort, Jacob Franks, Daniel Gomez, David Gomez, Isaac Gomez, Lewis  Gomez, Mordecai Gomez, Rebekah Gomez, Ephraim Hart, Judah Hays, Harmon Hendricks,  Uriah Hendricks, Uriah Hyam, Abraham Isaacs, Joshua Isaacs, Samuel Jacobs,  Benjamin S. Judah, Cary Judah, Elizabeth Judah, Arthur Levy, Eleazar Levy, Hayman  Levy, Isaac H. Levy, Jacob Levy, Joseph Israel Levy, Joshua Levy, Moses Levy,  Uriah Phillips Levy, Isaac R. Marques, Moses Michaels, (E)Manuel Myers, Seixas  Nathan, Simon Nathan, Rodrigo Pacheco, David Pardo, Isaac Pinheiro, Rachel Pinto,  Morris Jacob, Raphall Abraham Sarzedas, Moses Seixas, Solomon Simpson, Nathan  Simson, Simja De Torres, Benjamin Wolf, Alexander Zuntz

 

 

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