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i knew about jewish pirates of the carribean but i didn't know about 18th century jewish gunrunners of the carribean

This Jewish Community in the Caribbean Smuggled Gunpowder to the Patriots During the Revolution. A British Admiral Condemned the Island as a 'Nest of Vipers'A new exhibition at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, in Philadelphia, spotlights the little-known wartime contributions of the Jews of St. Eustatiuswww.smithsonianmag.com