An event I helped organize for Emory University's Office of Research Administration Social Justice Working Group. Thank you Hakham [Yehonatán Elazar-DeMota](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066646571130&__cft__[0]=AZXs_l1Z3DvdRFIfQSycsQEskszdkfdf7FbtJgWPCGS1no48_SIbg9qldwLwah3iGkUFumqD2PvPePLttL-LydVTEuAEqn1iFdFGJTaAfYQeg2DGGd9n0_K4-nHffvOJER2fgFSs07vKDjSZWfwHuqxhjf3aNWxLEbxuszwhyaXN9g&__tn__=-]K-R) for accepting our invitation.Dr. and Hakham Elazar-DeMota (Emory Affiliated Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion) addresses the halakhic (Jewish legal) issues of slavery and how jurists, merchants, and philosophers of the Amsterdam's Portuguese Jewish community contributed to the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic debate on slavery and slave trade.