The author argues that the story of Lehman Brothers illustrates how the South's investment in the cotton economy and the slave economy's legacy of white wealth and black impoverishment profoundly shaped American history from the antebellum period onward.

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  'The Lehman Trilogy' and Wall Street's Debt to Slavery

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• 'The Lehman Trilogy' and Wall Street's Debt to Slavery www.nybooks.com The New York Review of Books via serper

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