An example of a curated fact, did you know that... I actually read this in an article written by a rabbi, by the by, Jacob Rader Marcus. Did you know that in the late 18th century, some 40% of all Jewish households owned slaves? And that in some communities, like Charleston, South Carolina, which was a hotbed, incidentally, of slaving activity, that that figure was closer to 75%? By God, we can take that and run with it! The Jews controlled it all!
Well, that's right. Out of the roughly 51,000 slaves in Charleston in 1790, Jews owned a whole 93 of them.
So again, Jewish people of the time were not exempt from the evils of slavery, but no population was, right? They were few in number, but all the same on average better off for a whole slew of historical and legal, cultural and economic reasons that ultimately dated back to the Middle Ages. And when people were better off, whoever they were, they would have had a hand in the slave trade.
The same way that the nobility did, or for that matter, the Roman Church did. Where the Jews were not on average wealthier, like say in Poland, they weren't at the heads of these tables.