{"id":10367,"date":"2025-10-13T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/797226388992212992-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:54:21","slug":"797226388992212992-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/797226388992212992-2\/","title":{"rendered":"797226388992212992"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/slavery-capitalism.html\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/slavery-capitalism.html\",\"title\":\"American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. (Published 2019)\",\"description\":\"Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and ove\",\"site_name\":\"nytimes.com\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"3c1f7b2229c4a3990cf36bedd09b9dbd:cc9802708aac108a-8d\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1050,\"height\":550}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/08\/14\/magazine\/slavery-capitalism.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. (Published 2019)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearly two average American lifetimes (79 years) have passed since the end of slavery, only two. It is not surprising that we can still feel the looming presence of this institution, which helped turn a poor, fledgling nation into a financial colossus. The surprising bit has to do with the many eerily specific ways slavery can still be felt in our economic life. \u201cAmerican slavery is necessarily imprinted on the DNA of American capitalism,\u201d write the historians Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman. 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