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My curiosity was piqued and I actually looked up the book in question. I'm not surprised there's no page numbers listed in the infographic. Donnan's 'Documents' appears to be a hodge-podge of ship letters, bills of sale, notices, etc in loosely chronologic order. It does include pretty detailed tables containing information on the import of "negroes" to the colonies. Some are more orderly than others, New York's import records are condensed into a full list of all imports between 1715 and 1765 and covers pages 349-512 of Volume III, 'New England and the Middle Colonies', while the information on imports into Maryland is 'shotgunned' across a dozen different tables, and Rhode Island has no such assembled tables, the closest they have is customs records on ships departing to Africa.

Interestingly enough, I found confirmation of one of the names listed in the infographic - Aaron Lopez - he appears in a number of letters in the Rhode Island section and from what I've researched, he was a Jewish merchant who settled in New England and became involved in the slave trade (among many other industries). He was the owner for 21 separate slaving voyages out of Rhode Island between 1761 and 1774 (when importation of slaves to Rhode Island was banned) at a time when Rhode Island was averaging 10-15 slaving voyagers per year. Certainly it in no way proves the infographic's absurd implication that the slave trade was perpetrated exclusively by Jews, but the fact that this one individual accounted for not inconsequential share of the slave trade in the region and time he was active in is interesting.

A good rule of thumb where /pol/ is concerned is to take every single thing posted with a grain of salt until you or someone else finds credible corroboration. 95% of everything posted there is garbage, but that 5% that turns out to be true or have some element of truth can be important or at least of interest.