So we know that many slave owners used Christianity to try to make their slaves submissive. We also know that there were Jewish slaveowners in the America South. Did Jewish slaveowners “raise” their slaves in the Jewish tradition.
There is an older answer on this thread: and a comment by /u/gingerkid1234 specifically the part where they mention "What's important to remember here is that prior to the mass immigration of Jews to the US in the late 1800s, the Jewish community in the US was both quite small and relatively assimilated. At this point in Jewish history there really wouldn't've been a distinctly Jewish view on much of anything (beyond religion) among American Jews. Jews in the south did normal southern things, and that included slavery." would be interested to see if they could expand on that.
An article from historian Winthrop Jordan, professor of history concurs with the above in his book review of The Secret Relationship
I know that this is super old, but I did want to share another perspective on this-
While many Jewish slaveholders in the antebellum South weren't religious and therefore probably wouldn't have done much to teach their slaves about Judaism, in the 17-18c in the Caribbean there were religious Jews who owned slaves in places like Suriname and Curacao, and some did indeed teach their slaves about Judaism. While there could have been an element of making the slaves submissive, in fact there is actually a principle in Jewish law that slaveowners should convert their slaves, and a prayer book published in that era had a special prayer which was said on the conversion/circumcision of a slave. While this was a principle in Jewish law, not many slaveowners actually did it- some with the excuse that they considered themselves slave dealers and not actual long-term owners of slaves, and some simply ignored the principle, often converting their slaves to Catholicism in line with their non-Jewish neighbors. One exception, however, was when slaveowning men had sexual relations with their female slaves, and often the resulting children in particular were converted and especially educated in Judaism. In fact, they had their own synagogue, Darhe Jesarim, in Suriname. This was basically the only situation in which Jews generally converted their slaves in the Americas- it had been common in places such as Egypt and Turkey, but as the slavery of the Americas was much more racialized, slaves were often seen as "beneath" conversion.