Wall Street à l'époque où on transigeait des esclaves

Topo historique bien intéressant dans les pages du New York Times de ce matin. Il ne faut surtout pas limiter l'impact de l'esclavage aux seuls états du Sud.

 "Of all the commodities traded over time on Wall Street, the one that goes discreetly unmentioned in historical markers is human beings — the anxious throngs of kidnapped slaves that the New York City government routinely rented and auctioned off across half a century at the end of Wall Street at the East River.

This omission seems particularly egregious on a street where the excellent Museum of American Finance currently presents all manner of economic history and profit-building commodities, from railroads to cotton."

 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/opinion/tracking-new-yorks-roots-in-slavery.html?ref=opinion