Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World

1. Introduction 2. Abravanel's ambivalent Africans 3. Jews and their slaves: theory and reality 4. Blacks in Jewish society East of the Atlantic 5. Moshe's Kushite wife 6. Imagining Kushites 7. Explorations in the cross-cultural genealogy of the curse of Ham 8. Inventing Jewish whiteness in the seventeenth-century Western Sephardic diaspora 9. The religious life of slaves belonging to Jews in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch and English colonies 10. Into the enlightenment: Jews and Blacks in the long eighteenth century 11. Conclusion 12. Appendices.