Part V moves from the local to the international, in particular the connection with mainland America. Part IV contains archival studies that illuminate other subjects of importance-adventure and piracy, Jewish participation in a nineteenth-century revolt of black slaves and in the first Jamaican elections after Jews were granted the right to vote, and questions of concubinage and sexual relations between Jews and blacks. Part II examines the material and visual culture of Jews in the British and Dutch Caribbean, while Part III looks at Caribbean Jewish identity and heritage and their modern manifestations. Part I sets the context, and also considers the relationship of Caribbean Jewry to European trading systems its special ties to Amsterdam and Dutch-ruled Curaçao and the role of Jewish merchants in Jamaica’s commerce. Its interdisciplinary approach allows a wealth of new information to be brought together to create a comprehensive picture.
This book looks at many different aspects of this complex past. Subsequently many left the Iberian peninsula some found refuge in the Caribbean, but succeeded in maintaining strong connections with Portuguese Jews in western Europe, the Ottoman empire, and the Far East, while they also forged ties with the surrounding peoples and cultures. The potent combination of expulsion, Inquisition, and crypto-Judaism left people neither wholly Jewish nor wholly Christian in their identity. The Portuguese Jewish diaspora was born out of a double tragedy: the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and the forced conversion/expulsion of the Jews from Portugal in 1497.
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