The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast American slavery and the Holocaust, in terms of which was more malevolent than the other. Research indicates that “the “competition” between African Americans and Jews served to trivialize the malevolence from which both suffered” (Newton, 1999). According to L. Thomas "A separate issue contributing to the tension between blacks and Jews relates to the role that Jews played in the American slave trade." History Around 1600 (CE), the United States began importing blacks from the African continent for slave labor; and the Constitution later adopted by the colonies declared blacks to be 3/5 of a person (Martin, 1993). Laurence Thomas states that Adolf Hitler's aim in 1938 was to exterminate the Jewish population of six million. I think this is a really sad portrayal of what happened during this era, which is similar to what my ancestors faced during the Wounded Knee Massacre. According to L. Thomas “American slavery is the paradigm of African-American suffering for African-Americans. Americans in the United States; and the Holocaust is the example of the agony of the Jewish people” (Thomas, 2005). Tony Martin states that “the claims of the first two sentences are based on facts”. Laurence Thomas points out that the events referred to are in chronological order and that no one can dispute the order in which they occurred (Thomas, 2005). Slavery is a touchy subject that most would say is wicked and evil. Martin states that “some African Americans claimed that Jews were the dominant figures in the black slave trade. (Martino 1993). Mintz and McNeil's research argues that “After making contact with West Africans, the Portuguese are......center of paper......new to the colonial era. Digital history. Retrieved December 4, 2013, from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=2) http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/Newton, Adam Zachary, Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public space in twentieth-century America. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Retrieved 09/12/13. Rubenstein Richard, The Cunning of History. Harper and Row, 1975. Accessed December 4, 2013.Thomas, L. The Morally Obnoxious Comparisons of Evil.Wiesenthal Center, S. (2001, February 1). The Holocaust: 36 questions about the Holocaust. Retrieved from www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/36qs.html. Retrieved December 1, 2013). Yahweh, B. L. (2013). Jewish and African affairs. In B. Yahweh (ed.), Jews and the African Holocaust. Retrieved December 2, 2013, from http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/jewishslave.html.