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{{short description|American businessman}}
'''Moses Elias Levy''' (1782 in [[Essaouira|Mogador]], [[Morocco]] – September 7, 1854 in [[White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia|White Sulphur Springs]], [[Virginia]]) (In Arabic :'''موسى إلياس ليفي''') was a Jewish-Moroccan-American businessman and ardent social and religious reformer. Born into an elite [[Sephardic Jewish]] family in Morocco, Levy migrated to Gibraltar as a child and later established himself as a merchant/shipper in the Caribbean with extensive business dealings in England, Europe, and the Americas. After amassing a fortune, Levy ended his business career in favor of a life centered on philanthropic causes.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Moses Levy of Florida Jewish Utopian and antebellum reformer|author=Monaco, C. S.|date=cop. 2005|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|isbn=0807130958|oclc=799705796}}</ref> In 1821 he immigrated to the Florida Territory in the United States where he established a large agrarian refuge for Jews who were suffering under repression in Europe. Although the number of Jews fell far short of expectations, at least five Jewish families made their way to Levy's Pilgrimage Plantation--located in north central Florida--making this the first agrarian Jewish settlement in the United States (1822-1835).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Moses Levy of Florida Jewish Utopian and antebellum reformer|author=Monaco, C. S.|date=cop. 2005|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|isbn=0807130958|oclc=799705796}}</ref> The plantation was destroyed by fire during the onset of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). Levy, a slaveholder, was also unusual in his advocacy of the gradual emancipation of slaves. He wrote "A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery" while in [[London]] in 1828, achieving celebrity during the height of the antislavery campaign.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Moses Levy of Florida Jewish Utopian and antebellum reformer|author=Monaco, C. S.|date=cop. 2005|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|isbn=0807130958|oclc=799705796}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title="Moses Elias Levy," in Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition|last=Monaco|first=C. S.|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-313-33142-
==Life==
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