Judah Cohen
Judah Mordechai Cohen (1768 – 8 September 1838) was a Dutch-born London-based Jewish merchant and slave plantation owner with interests in Jamaica. With over 1255 slaves on his plantations, Cohen was one of the most extensive slave owners in Jamaica and the British West Indies in general at the time of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. He had been involved in trade in the West Indies as a partner of his older brother Hymen Cohen since 1804. Biography Judah Mordechai Cohen was born at Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands to Mordechai Levie Cohen (1733—1830) and his wife Rachel Coenraad Blits, a Dutch Jewish couple born in Amsterdam who relocated to Herne Hill, Surrey, England. Along with his brother, Hymen Cohen (1762—1845), Judah Cohen was a co-partner in Hymen Cohen & Company which was listed in the London Gazette in 1804 and operated out of 58 Mansell Street: it dealt with trade in the West Indies. Another partner was Ellis Wolfe of Kingston, Jamaica. In August 1822, a ship owned by the Cohens, the , carrying coffee from their Jamaican slave plantations, was plundered by pirates operating out of Spanish Cuba and ended up being sold in Havana. The pirates also took