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You may not like the ALEC list but in some form most of the major US corporations that have existed for sometime have benefited from slavery. It’s a fact that
by faintrain 7y ago
You may not like the ALEC list but in some form most of the major US corporations that have existed for sometime have benefited from slavery.
It’s a fact that a number of American and European institutions benefited both directly and indirectly from former and present day slavery. Some have even admitted as much.
If you don’t want to read, here’s another short list: AIG, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Brooks Brothers, Aetna, Lehman Brothers, Domino Sugar, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Princeton University, Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Georgetown,
- https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1543861 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=154386...
- https://time.com/5013728/slavery-universities-america/ https://time.com/5013728/slavery-universities-america/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49476247 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49476247
- WillPostForFood 7y agoThis is about prison labor, not historical slavery.
- faintrain 7y agoThe two are very related. You may want to read up on the period of Reconstruction. The southern states moved to use of prisons and sharecropping/terrorism to maintain their hold on cheap labor. There’s too many studies and books on this topic so I won’t post them. Instead, I’d recommend reading more about the parts of American history not called out in your standard high school text books.