"If a slave auction fell on a Jewish festival, it was postponed due to lack of buyers and sellers."

July 31, 2016: Clip from Brother Matthew Nolan's The Bigger Picture - The Synagogue of Satan sermon. Nolan is an American-English conservative Bible commentator and the founder and media host of Torah to the Tribes. Nolan explains that multiple Jewish sources confirm that the biggest slavers of the 16th and 17th century, entering the 18th century, was Jews, specifically the Ashkenazi Jews. Nolan quotes Jewish scholar Jonathan Schorsch: "Jewish merchants routinely possessed enormous numbers of slaves temporarily before selling the off. If a slave auction fell on a Jewish festival, it was postponed due to lack of buyers and sellers." The Jews gave their slave plantations Hebrew names. Nolan quotes Rabbi Herbert Bloom: "The slave trade was one the most important Jewish activities." Jewish slaving is confirmed by the Jewish Encyclopedia.