Look what I found:
15 Major Corporations You Never Knew Profited from S***eryhttps://atlantab****star.com/2013/08/26/17-major-companies-never-knew-benefited-s***ery/The ens***ement of African people in the Americas by the nations and peoples of Western Europe, created the economic engine that funded modern capitalism. Therefore it comes as no surprise that most of the major corporations that were founded by Western European and American merchants prior to roughly 100 years ago, benefited directly from s***ery.
Lehman Brothers, whose business empire started in the s***e trade, recently admitted their part in the business of s***ery.
Aetna, Inc., the United States’ largest health insurer, apologized for selling policies in the 1850s that reimbursed s***e owners for financial losses when the ens***ed Africans they owned died.
JPMorgan Chase admitted their company’s links to s***ery.
“Today, we are reporting that this research found that, between 1831 and 1865, two of our predecessor banks — Citizens Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana — accepted approximately 13,000 ens***ed individuals as collateral on loans and took ownership of approximately 1,250 of them when the plantation owners defaulted on the loans,” the company wrote in a statement.
New York Life Insurance Company is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States. They also took part in s***ery by selling insurance policies on ens***ed Africans.
USA Today reported that
Wachovia Corporation (now owned by Wells Fargo) has apologized for its ties to s***ery after disclosing that two of its historical predecessors owned ens***ed Africans and accepted them as payment.
N M Rothschild & Sons Bank in London was linked to s***ery. The company that was one of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to s***ery in the British colonies. Documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed that Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking family’s 19th-century patriarch, made personal gains by using ens***ed Africans as collateral in dealings with a s***e owner.
Norfolk Southern also has a history in the s***e trade.
The Mobile & Girard company, which is now part of Norfolk Southern, offered s***eholders $180 ($3,379 today) apiece for ens***ed Africans they would rent to the railroad for one year, according to the records. The Central of Georgia, another company aligned with Norfolk Southern line today, valued its s***es at $31,303 ($663,033 today) on record.
USA Today has found that their own parent company,
E.W. Scripps and Gannett, has had links to the s***e trade.
According to reports,
FleetBoston evolved from an earlier financial institution,
Providence Bank, founded by a John Brown, who was a s***e trader and owned ships used to t***sport ens***ed Africans.
CSX used s***e labor to construct portions of some U.S. rail lines under the political and legal system that was in place more than a century ago.
The Canadian National Railway Company is a Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. The company also has a history in which it benefited from s***ery. The Mobile & Ohio, now part of Canadian National, valued their s***es lost to the war and emancipation at $199,691 on record.
Brown Brothers Harriman is the oldest and largest private investment bank and securities firm in the United States, founded in 1818. USA Today found that the New York merchant bank of James and William Brown, currently known as Brown Bros. Harriman owned hundreds of ens***ed Africans and financed the cotton economy by lending millions to southern planters, merchants and cotton brokers.
Brooks Brothers, the high-end suit retailer, got their start selling s***e clothing to various s***e traders back in the 1800s. What a way to get rich in the immoral s***e industry!
Barclays, the British multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in London has now conceded that companies it bought over the years
may have been involved in the s***e trade.
USA Today reported that New York-based
AIG completed the purchase of American General Financial Group, a Houston-based insurer that owns
U.S. Life Insurance Company. A U.S. Life policy on an ens***ed African living in Kentucky was reprinted in a 1935 article about s***e insurance in The American Conservationist magazine.
AIG says it has “found documentation indicating” U.S. Life insured ens***ed Africans.