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Atheists & Agnostics

JDDavis

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3. Thanks for this, something I knew nothing about.

Reply to onager (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 1, 2015, 07:25 PM

Feb 2015

I must admit, I don't know much about the history of Jewish folks in the USA.

When did the first group come here? From where did they come in those early days?

Evidently, there was a promise of some freedoms for some to come from Europe in the 1700's, even to an area like South Carolina, center of the slave trade in the Southern colonies. I can only imagine that South Carolinians didn't invite them here for their expertise in bagels and lox or geffilterfisch. But I could be wrong.

So much of the history of various religious groups coming to America, or moving anywhere around the world large distances for whatever reason, all of that, I do not know.

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