Genoese merchant-bankers filled economic roles expelled Jews had occupied in Spain

Evidence

Americo Castro concluded: “The Italians” form of life had more points of contact with the Jews than with the Spanish Christians. In the Middle Ages there were dynasties of great Genoese traders … ; the Genoese continued to engage in banking negotiations between Spain and her American dominions when there were no Jews to do this.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1837

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in how Iberian expulsion of Jews reshaped the early Atlantic economy that undergirds the Black radical tradition’s origins. — connects to: The Spanish Inquisition was economic control, and Ottomans sheltered its Jewish refugees — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 353