‘The Lehman Trilogy’ and Wall Street’s Debt to Slavery - by Sarah Churchwell - The New York Review of Books 🔗 🗽 💵 ⛓ 🎭

The elision is not sinister, but it is symptomatic. No one involved in editing the playbills is defending or apologizing for slavery; they were doing their jobs, putting together a program of necessarily brief essays about the play as it has been produced, which does not address slavery. But the erasure of slavery from the play matters: it distorts the history of Lehman Brothers’ beginnings in the antebellum South, allowing the play to evade the question of whether making money out of money is really more reprehensible than making money out of slaves.