Slavery’s proceeds continue financing ordinary present-day American commerce

Evidence

No American alive today can outrun slavery’s taint. Remember that proposed development in Chevy Chase, Maryland? It currently houses “an office building, the Chevy Chase Center shopping strip and Saks Fifth Avenue,” where I have on occasion shopped. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 458

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slavery powered European merchant capitalism and American expansion — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 19; Slave-economy speculation seeded a persistent culture of American capitalism — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 559; Black labor exploitation continued in new forms after slavery’s legal abolition (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Slavery powered European merchant capitalism and American expansion — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 19; Slave-economy speculation seeded a persistent culture of American capitalism — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 559; Black labor exploitation continued in new forms after slavery’s legal abolition (+2 more)