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Banking on slavery : financing Southern expansion in the antebellum United States

Murphy, Sharon Ann - 2023

1810s. The limits of early bank financing of slavery -- Adapting slave financing to the needs of the frontier South during … the nation's first boom and bust -- Part II. Financing an empire of slavery in the 1820s and 1830s. Old South banks and …"Sharon Murphy's book is a powerful and unprecedented dive into the entangled history of banking and slavery in …

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The color of money : black banks and the racial wealth gap

Baradaran, Mehrsa - 2017

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators...

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The black ceiling : how race still matters in the elite workplace

Woodson, Kevin - 2023

"America's preeminent law firms, investment banks, and management consultant firms are known for being difficult workplaces. Between long, stressful hours on the job, low odds of promotions, often-unrewarding work assignments, and "up-or-out" personnel practices, most people who begin their...

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Disclosures for slavery accounting concerning SDG 8 and corporate attributes : a study on the banking industry of Bangladesh

Saha, Trina; Miah, Rubel; Rahman, Mahfujur; Das, Sumon Kumar - In: Future Business Journal 9 (2023), pp. 1-15

practices related to slavery by listed banking companies of Bangladesh and the relationship between reporting practice and … from the company websites, and content analysis was used to determine the nature and extent of slavery reporting; an index …. Content analysis showed a clear picture of the consciousness about slavery accounting as all of the companies reported a …

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Serving the chain? : De Nederlandsche Bank and the last decades of slavery, 1814-1863

Fatah-Black, Karwan; Lauret, Lauren; Tol, Joris van den - 2023

established, slavery was still very much part of the nation's global imperial structures. Dutch families, institutions, and … book is a history of De Nederlandsche Bank in which particular attention is paid to its links with slavery, both as a … Colonies and consequently followed Dutch trade interests, the bank's history intersects with the history of slavery. The …