Minor toning. It will be read, probably, by millions of people.” “No such faint voice as mine,” Benjamin One key piece of the Pesach ritual is the exhortion to "remember you were slaves in Egypt". Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Black ink on stiff buff paper. Confederate leader at the Battle of Mansfield. $24.95. Born: August 11, 1811, Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands Died: May 6, 1884, Paris, France Place of burial: Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France Overview US Senator, Confederate attorney general, secretary of war, and secretary of state. His law partner John Slidell (August Belmont’s [vi] wife’s uncle) was the Confederate envoy to France. The Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, also known as the Gamble Mansion or Gamble Plantation, is a Florida State Park, located in Ellenton, Florida, on 37th Avenue East and US 301.It is home to the Florida Division United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).. Civil War, 1861-1865. On a busy, commercial street, in front of a FedEx store, the tombstone-like memorial honored Judah P. Benjamin, a Jewish southerner and the Secretary of State to the Confederacy. Spokesman for slavery. It will be read, probably, by millions of people.” “No such faint voice as mine,” Benjamin Benjamin adhered to Southern norms including support of slavery, being a plantation owner and slaveholder. Benjamin achieved high-ranking titles wherever he served, and left an indelible mark in the South where he held more official positions than any other man during the Civil War. Near Fine. In 1856 Louisianan Judah P. Benjamin complained in the Senate that remarks made by antislavery colleague William H. Seward “will be spread through the machinery of the federal post office. An eloquent defender of state's rights and of slavery, he nevertheless supported preservation of the Union and was easily re-elected to … Yet another stone marker is located at 9 West Main Street in Richmond, Virginia, identifying the location of Benjamin’s residence during the Civil War. he was a Louisiana lawyer, slave-owner, and U. S. Senator. Benjamin continued his career as a state congressman until 1853, when he was sworn in as a … History. His support of slavery was evidenced both by his fight to have slaves exempt from electoral procedures, as well as his acquisition of a sugar cane plantation and 140 slaves in the 1840s. By Eli N. Evans Free Press. More than 3,000 Jews fought for the slaveholders in the Civil War, and a Jewish owner of a 140-slave plantation, Judah P. Benjamin, was secretary of state for the Confederacy. In the Senate Benjamin's constitutional and legal arguments ever attracted particular attention, and made him the leader par excellence in the defense of slavery and, later on, of secession. . Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861. Judah P. Benjamin Judah Philip Benjamin ( August 6 , 1811 – May 6 , 1884 ) was a British-American politician and lawyer, who served as a representative in the Louisiana State Legislature , as U.S. His speech on the right of property in slaves and the right of slavery to national protection in the territories was probably the ablest on that side of the controversy. (1957). . Jews have both owned and been slaves in societies where it was a legal and accepted practice. Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. Two recent articles specifically examined Benjamin’s views and convictions on the two institutions he based his future on slavery and secession. A moral examination of one of the first Jewish senators, confidante to Jefferson Davis, and champion of the cause of slavery Judah P. Benjamin (1811–1884) was a brilliant and successful lawyer in New Orleans, and one of the first Jewish members of the U.S. Senate. 1, pp. . EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF HON. In 1833 he married Natalie Bauche de St. Martin, the 16-year-old daughter of a prominent and … He had a long, lucrative career and was much admired by his British colleagues. Judah P Benjamin (1811-84) of the law firm of Slidell, Benjamin and Conrad in Louisiana was a Rothschild agent who became Secretary of State for the Confederacy in 1862. 10-20. As Butler put it, "he could no more see that it was right for Northern people to rob him of his slave than it … As Robert Rosen author of The Jewish Confederates notes, “Judah Benjamin is a great example of how Southern Jews were assimilated into Southern Society. [Slavery]. Judah P. Benjamin, a Sephardic Jewish immigrant born in 1811 on Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands, he was brought to the United States by his parents in 1813 at the age of two. judah p. benjamin. When our soldiers in the trenches, said he, are crying out for help, shall we care whether the aid we send is black or white ? Historic Political Figures. Published in 1988, Eli Evans' Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate analyzes the role that Judaism played in Benjamin's life. 469 pp. [RUBINSTEIN, p. 20] After the war Benjamin fled to England. Judah P. Benjamin, the Attorney General of the Confederate States, is perhaps the greatest mind on this continent. Judah Philip Benjamin QC (August 11, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States, and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. @1880]. phy, Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate, in your issue of Dec., 1988. Notable particularly is Davis' concern not only with Evans' "minor errors" in the "historical background" but with the issue that is "More serious, especially in view of modern Jewish-Black relations . In 1856 Louisianan Judah P. Benjamin complained in the Senate that remarks made by antislavery colleague William H. Seward “will be spread through the machinery of the federal post office. Judah Benjamin as "other" in Confederate inner circles: Judah P. Benjamin, the dapper Jew, Seal-sleek, black-eyed, lawyer and epicure, Able, well-hated, face alive with life, Looked round the council-chamber with the slight Perpetual smile he held before himself continually like a silk-ribbed fan. DOI: 10.1080/10417945709371465 Corpus ID: 159933450. United States Senator Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana, circa 1856. When considering those who propelled the just, honest, and pure principles that define the south, one cannot list many individuals without first mentioning Judah P. Benjamin.