“In multiple Southern states, more than eight in 10 mortgage-secured loans used enslaved people as collateral. ... To raise capital, banks pooled debt generated by slave mortgages and repackaged it as bonds promising investors annual interest.”https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capitalism.html …
Accountants “also developed ways to calculate depreciation by assessing the market value of enslaved workers over their life spans. Values ... were individually adjusted up or down based on sex, strength and temperament: people reduced to data points.”https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capitalism.html …