For those who read the comments to decide if they'd consider to read the article, this is a set of history texts with the topic:<p>"Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers."<p>There are some interesting details about the management practices, but also banking and monetary policies in the texts written by Mehrsa Baradaran, also featured on the page:<p>"The Limits of Banking Regulation"<p>"Fiat Currency and the Civil War"<p>"Cotton and the Global Market"<p>and by Tiya Miles:<p>"How Slavery Made Wall Street"<p>--<p>The title is also shortened from already shortened "American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation." The title visible on the page is "In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation."