When Jews were being expelled in Europe they found some kind of sanctuary in Venice, but they had to live separately away from the main city A mutually beneficial business relationship developed between the Jews and the oligarchy. When the oligarchy moved to England after the League of Cambrai the Jews could not move with them because England had expelled them. So the Jews financed Cromwell in return for being allowed to return to England.Venice could not trust the Vatican after the League of Cambrai so all Catholic influence in England had to be removed, which led to The Glorious Revolution. This is when England began to really become involved in the slave trade, leading to the South Sea bubble, and an explosion in trading slaves by the Royal African Company.
Venice was known as the slave-trading capital of Europe.
The execution of Charles I suited both the Jews and Venice: the Venetian system could become dominant, and the Jews could return to England.
Note also that it was around this time that Sabbatai Tzevi and Jacob Frank began their attempts to establish a homeland for Jews in Palestine.
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