1668: First Black Jew ever recorded living in New England (jan 1, 1668 – jan 1, 1669)

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"In 1668 Boston reported the arrival and arrest of a Jew named Solomon. He was caught in the town of Wenham, Mass., on his way to New Hampshire and Maine. His crime? He had profaned the Lord's Day by traveling on a Sun-day. Who was Solomon? All we know is that he was described as a "malata Jue." But was he actually a mulatto? The Englishmen of that day thought of the Jews as a dark-skinned people. In 1665, three years before Solomon was hauled before the magistrates in Wenham, a respectable Portuguese Jew on Jamaica, a landowner, was referred to as a "black Jew." It is by no means improbable that the term mulatto was occasionally applied to Spanish-Portuguese Jews, especially by people who had never seen a Jew before."

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https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1969.12.05.001/50

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