Corporation · est. 1850
Lehman Brothers
The Wall Street firm began as an Alabama cotton brokerage built on slave-grown cotton.
← Follow the MoneyLehman Brothers started as a Montgomery, Alabama general store and cotton brokerage, extending credit to slaveholding planters; the brothers themselves owned enslaved people before the firm moved north to become a financial powerhouse.
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- profited from·ThreadChattel Slavery
Lehman began as a cotton brokerage built on slave labor.