According to a review in "The Journal of American History" of both "Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight" and "Jews and the American Slave Trade": "Faber acknowledges the few merchants of Jewish background locally prominent in slaving during the second half of the eighteenth century but otherwise confirms the small-to-minuscule size of colonial Jewish communities of any sort and shows them engaged in slaving and slave holding only to degrees indistinguishable from those of their English competitors."