The Lehman brothers' firm accepted profits from slaves traded as chattel to satisfy debts, as evidenced by an 1859 report in a Troy, Alabama, newspaper regarding a sheriff selling a woman named Beckey and her child Gus to satisfy a fieri facias (fifa) in favor of Lehman Brothers.

Authors

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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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• Lehman Brothers entity