The author argues that the classic American immigrant success story, as portrayed in the play 'The Lehman Trilogy', occludes the question of complicity in slavery by superimposing a myth of hard work and social mobility over a system that relied on the deprivation of rights for enslaved people.

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

Sources

• '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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