The island of Kaffa in the Black Sea was a Jewish island and the main slave mart.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Kaffa was a major slave market, as the claim says, but the sources describe it as a Genoese-era port city on the Crimean peninsula, not an island. They also show Jews were a small minority there (about 3% of the population in the 1520s-1540s), so it was not a Jewish island. The extracted claim matches the passage faithfully.
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… that, you know, they would use alcohol to trick people into doing things, and this continued even after Poland ceased to exist, um, even at the expense of, you know, the average man or the Cossack's wife and children. I think the Jews very much feared them. Don't forget, one of the original purposes of the Cossack host was to free Christian slaves from the island of Kaffa in the Black Sea, which is a Jewish island and is where the main slave mart was, so their contempt for the Jews at the time knew no bounds, and that goes back to their very founding, um, and often, you know, there were a lot of Jews there. …
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Contradicts. Kaffa is described as a city and port on the Crimean coast, not an island.[1][2][3]
Contradicts. The YIVO Encyclopedia says Jews made up roughly 3 percent of Kaffa's population in the 1520s-1540s, and the city was multi-ethnic (Genoese, Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Muslims), so calling it a Jewish island is contradicted.[2][3][4]
Supports. Multiple sources describe Kaffa (Caffa) as a major slave market, with one calling it one of Europe's biggest and another the largest slave market in the Crimea.[1][2][5]
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5 sources: 5 not rated
- 1Feodosiatropki.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 2Christensen C.S. Was there really a siege of Kaffa by the Mongols in ...st-hum.ru · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 3Krymchaks - YIVO Encyclopediaencyclopedia.yivo.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Krimchaks - Jewish Virtual Libraryjewishvirtuallibrary.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5The Crimean Tatars and their Russian-Captive Slaveshit-u.repo.nii.ac.jp · not rated · cited for: supports
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