This is a difficult book to read, not least because of its serious purpose in refuting a charge that has become too common in some segments of the Black community in recent years which blames the Jews for the slave trade. This stance, Friedman seems to suggest, is partly a tactic of one outside group adopting the majority's traditionally hostile viewpoint towards another outside group for its own purposes. The two groups have had, perhaps more often than most, a relatively close relationship, despite the divergent circumstances of their passage to the Americas, sharing neighborhoods, poverty, and the struggle for civil rights. But they have also diverged in wealth, outlook, politics, and aims. In the last two chapters of this book, by far the most interesting, Friedman discusses the history of this relationship and explores its dynamics.

弗里德曼对于伊斯兰文稿《锡安博学长老议定书（Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion ）》、伊斯兰民族历史研究组著《黑人和犹太人的秘密关系》等的驳斥文章，探讨了伊斯兰宣称的犹太人阴谋论，算得上本世界最重要的分裂的宗教世界知识读本