Companies,Corporations,Banks and Universities Across The World That Are Linked To Slavery

[Medicate]

Lets have a thread where we mark off and locate any and all companies,corporations and any other entity around the world that was founded, benefited, and either is defunct now, and/or has a new name or subsidiary that it changed to and still benefits and sustains the racist parasitic Capitalist structure.

AIG - bought American General Financial which owns US Life Insurance Company. US Life used to insure the lives of slaves.

Aetna – insured the lives of slaves in the 1850s.

Bank Of America - grew in part out of the Bank of Metropolis, which accepted slaves as collateral.

Brooks Brothers - got its start making clothes for slaves

Brown Brothers Harriman - a Wall Street bank that owned hundreds of slaves and lent millions to Southern planters, merchants and cotton traders.

Brown University - named for the Brown brothers who gave money to the university. Two were slave traders, another ran a factory that used slave-grown cotton. University Hall was built in part by slave labour.

CSX Corporation - rented slaves to build rail lines.

Fleet Boston - grew out of Providence Bank, founded by one of the Brown brothers (see Brown University above), a slave trader who owned slave ships. The bank made money from the slave trade. Providence, Rhode Island was the home port for many slave ships.

Harvard Law School - endowed with money from Isaac Royall, an Antiguan slave owner and sugar grower.

JP Morgan Chase - made a fortune from the slave trade. Predecessor banks (Citizens Bank, Canal Bank in Louisiana) accepted slaves as collateral, taking possession of 1,250 slaves from owners who defaulted on loans.

New York Life - insured slaves. Of its first 1,000 insurance polices, 339 were policies on slaves.

Norfolk Southern - the Mobile & Girard, now part of Norfolk Southern, rented slaves to work on the railroad. Central of Georgia, also now part of the company, owned slaves.

Princeton -
raised money and recruited students from rich, slave-owning families in the South and the Caribbean. Princeton was not alone in hitting up slave owners and traders for money and students. So did:

• Harvard,
• Yale,
• Penn,
• Columbia,
• Rutgers,
• Brown,
• Dartmouth and the
• University of Delaware.

By the middle 1700s, most Princeton students were the sons of slave owners. Many of Columbia’s students were sons of slave traders.

Tiffany's - founded with profits from a cotton mill in Connecticut that processed slave-grown cotton.

USA TODAY - its parent company, Gannett, had links to slavery.

Wells Fargo - Georgia Railroad & Banking Company and the Bank of Charleston owned or accepted slaves as collateral. They later became part of Wells Fargo by way of Wachovia. (In the 2000s Wells Fargo targeted blacks for predatory lending.)

Yale - money from slave trading went to its first endowed scholarships, professorship and library.

Universities not only sought and accepted money from slave owners and traders, they helped to create scientific racism.

 

[Medicate]

Also I researched on my own and found many others that still benefit now and was founded off the blood and labor of our people.

Firestone Natural Rubber Company, up in Akron, Ohio which even has its mark on the so called "Rubber Bowl" and the rubber you are driving on, all has its foundation in the colonial era, after slavery, but in the era when the devils were just outright stealing out of the motherland and via puppet governments and violence. Between 1940 and 1965 Firestone took 160 million dollars worth of rubber out of Liberia; while in return the Liberian government received 8 million dollars.”

Also if you read up on Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa", and then back research, you will find out that the Lever Brothers who founded "Lever" soap products and also Unilever products.

Unilever was a major beneficiaries of the exploitation of the African continent. Beginning with soap, William Lever began to produce Lifebuoy, Lux and Vim and margarine. A merger in 1929-30 resulted in Unilever taking its current title and expanding with the material coming from products such as copra, groundnut oil, palm oil, and oils and the fats of animals. Today Unilever is one of the biggest corporations in the world now responsible for everyday indispensable brand name products such as Dove, Closeup toothpaste, Lipton’s tea, Q tips, Vaseline, Cutex, Slimfast, Klondike, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Ponds, Sunlight, Breeze, and Vim of old.

 

[A1aaa]

my alma mater is on that list, unsurprisingly. i was talking to someone recently about how the architecture of the area i lived in is STILL reminiscent of the era of slave trading... old colonial style houses dating back to 1600-1700, designated as a rich part of the region's history...

america's entire history is seeped in blood... even it's most vaunted institutions. good thread.

 

[Medicate]

my alma mater is on that list, unsurprisingly. i was talking to someone recently about how the architecture of the area i lived in is STILL reminiscent of the era of slave trading... old colonial style houses dating back to 1600-1700, designated as a rich part of the region's history...

america's entire history is seeped in blood... even it's most vaunted institutions. good thread.

Drenched in blood breh......And these devils got the audacity to even challenge the reparations argument......

 

[PoPimp84]

Reparations should come from these Corporations and institutions who profited off of blood money as well as the government. I'm not holding my breath for it tho

 

[Kitsch]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-...-buried-now-its-scale-can-be-revealed.337212/

 

[Medicate]

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[PhonZhi]

Damn this thread should be stickied and everyone should post this link on ya social media. THIS is the type of stuff we need to be aware of. I dont think (in fact i KNOW) that we are aware of the ECONOMICAL affect that slavery had on the U.S. We definantly are owed reparations.

 

[TTT]

The thriving British economy after 1660 was made possible mainly because of Britain's financial institutions. Trading houses, insurance companies and banks emerged to underpin Britain's overseas trade and empire. The expansion of overseas trade, especially in the Atlantic, relied on credit, and bills of credit (like modern travellers cheques), which were at the heart of the slave trade. Similarly, the maritime insurance, which was focused at Lloyds of London, thrived on the Atlantic slave trade.

There were no banks in the City until the mid-17th century, and even a century later, banking was under-developed outside London. But slave traders and planters badly needed credit. A slave voyage from Liverpool to Africa then on to the Caribbean, before heading home, could take 18 months. And each point of the trade - buying and selling Africans, buying and importing produce (mainly sugar) cultivated using the labour of enslaved people - involved credit arrangements. Merchants and traders in London, Bristol and Liverpool, bought the planters' produce, so in effect, British merchants became the bankers of the slave trade.

Provincial banking emerged in the 18th century because of the need for credit in the long-distance Atlantic slave trade. For example, Liverpool merchants involved in slave trading later formed Heywoods Bank, which eventually became part of Barclays Bank. Other modern banking names, such as Lloyds, emerged in this way and inevitably had links to the Atlantic slave trade. The Bank of England was also involved. When it was set up in 1694, it underpinned the whole system of commercial credit, and its wealthy City members, from the governor down, were often men whose fortunes had been made wholly or partly in the slave trade. The Bank of England stabilised the national finances, and enabled the state to wage its major wars of the 18th century. These wars were aimed at securing and safeguarding overseas possessions, including the slave colonies, and to finance the military and naval means that protected the Atlantic slave routes and the plantation economies.

BBC - History - British History in depth: Slavery and the Building of Britain

 

[Samori Toure]

The thriving British economy after 1660 was made possible mainly because of Britain's financial institutions. Trading houses, insurance companies and banks emerged to underpin Britain's overseas trade and empire. The expansion of overseas trade, especially in the Atlantic, relied on credit, and bills of credit (like modern travellers cheques), which were at the heart of the slave trade. Similarly, the maritime insurance, which was focused at Lloyds of London, thrived on the Atlantic slave trade.

There were no banks in the City until the mid-17th century, and even a century later, banking was under-developed outside London. But slave traders and planters badly needed credit. A slave voyage from Liverpool to Africa then on to the Caribbean, before heading home, could take 18 months. And each point of the trade - buying and selling Africans, buying and importing produce (mainly sugar) cultivated using the labour of enslaved people - involved credit arrangements. Merchants and traders in London, Bristol and Liverpool, bought the planters' produce, so in effect, British merchants became the bankers of the slave trade.

Provincial banking emerged in the 18th century because of the need for credit in the long-distance Atlantic slave trade. For example, Liverpool merchants involved in slave trading later formed Heywoods Bank, which eventually became part of Barclays Bank. Other modern banking names, such as Lloyds, emerged in this way and inevitably had links to the Atlantic slave trade. The Bank of England was also involved. When it was set up in 1694, it underpinned the whole system of commercial credit, and its wealthy City members, from the governor down, were often men whose fortunes had been made wholly or partly in the slave trade. The Bank of England stabilised the national finances, and enabled the state to wage its major wars of the 18th century. These wars were aimed at securing and safeguarding overseas possessions, including the slave colonies, and to finance the military and naval means that protected the Atlantic slave routes and the plantation economies.

BBC - History - British History in depth: Slavery and the Building of Britain

Later on those same English benefited from colonizing Africa. Cecil and John Rhoades raped the Southern part of the continent and founded DeBeers Diamond company. The Rhoades also founded that Rhodes scholarship on the back of our people.

 

[Medicate]

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[ReturnOfJudah]

Will definitely create a topic on this shyt. Thanks OP

 

[bdkane]

When the reparations argument is made, there is no doubt it is justified. The only thing left should be how we use the capital.

 

[CodeBlaMeVi]

Reparations should come from these Corporations and institutions who profited off of blood money as well as the government. I'm not holding my breath for it tho

Like I told my friend the other day, whitewashing is happening with the widespread promotion of interracial relationships. In a few future generations, they're going to rewrite history like they always do, buy up and burn all the history books and records like they did the bible in "The Book Of Eli". It will be so few black people in the future America with all these mix breeds. Mix breeds are going to fukk on cacs then thin us out.

Pay attention to the Disney shows, the commercials, the tabloids, etc. It is all around.

 

[Medicate]

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